Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, attends a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2023.
Meta said Tuesday it will limit the type of content that teenagers on Facebook and Instagram are able to see, as the company faces mounting claims that its products are addictive and harmful to the mental well-being of younger users.
In a blog post, Meta said the new protections are designed "to give teens more age-appropriate experiences on our apps."
Similar complaints have dogged the company since 2021, before it changed its name from Facebook to Meta.
Haugen later testified to a Senate panel that Facebook consistently puts its own profits over users' health and safety, largely due to algorithms that steered users toward high-engagement posts.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Letitia James, Arturo Bejar, Francis Haugen, Haugen, hasn't
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Meta, U.S, Senate, Intelligence, Capitol, Washington , D.C, Facebook, New York
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