{"id":825277,"date":"2024-06-24T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T03:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=825277"},"modified":"2024-06-24T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:12:27","slug":"how-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-failed-children-on-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/24\/how-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-failed-children-on-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta failed children on safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness and compulsive use on Instagram and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>In the email, Ginsberg noted that the company faced scrutiny for its products\u2019 impacts \u201cespecially around areas of problematic use\/addiction and teens.\u201d He asked Zuckerberg for 24 engineers, researchers and other staff.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, Susan Li, now the company\u2019s chief financial officer, informed Ginsberg that the project was \u201cnot funded\u201d because of staffing constraints. Adam Mosseri, Instagram\u2019s head, ultimately declined to finance the project, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness and compulsive use on Instagram and Facebook. In the email, Ginsberg noted that the company faced scrutiny for its products\u2019 impacts \u201cespecially around areas of problematic use\/addiction and teens.\u201d He asked Zuckerberg for 24 engineers, researchers and other staff. A week later, Susan Li, now the company\u2019s chief financial officer, informed Ginsberg that the project was \u201cnot funded\u201d because of staffing constraints. Adam Mosseri, Instagram\u2019s head, ultimately declined to finance the project, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}