Meta is expanding its content restrictions for teenagers in New Zealand, introducing parental controls and age-appropriate defaults on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, amid growing concerns over youth mental health and platform design.
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it is my, this is the problem, Rachel, is that social media, this is like asking cigarette not to be addicted. Social media is by design, it's designed to be addictive. So if you then say duty of care, you mustn't be addictive to under 16 year olds, literally it will not, it can't do that. Like you're asking it to change its very system.
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