Meta Platform Inc., the company that owns the world’s social media giant, will allow parents to keep track of the amount of time their children spend on the Instagram platform.
Adding honey to the news, Meta will also launch a parental monitoring function on its Quest Virtual Reality headset.
The tool allows parents to monitor their children’s Instagram accounts and set time limits for their use.
For your information, the parental monitoring function is part of Meta's promise to protect child users who use its platform.
It follows because there are several insiders who revealed documents regarding the company about the dangers of Instagram to the mental health of teenage female users, involving body image.
An official Meta statement said the surveillance tool could be used in the United States (US) starting Thursday and globally next month.
In a separate news release, Facebook as well as several other social media platforms were seen blocking official Russian posts claiming reports of children’s hospital bombings in Ukraine were false.
The spread of the fake news has spread so widely that it forced Meta and Twitter Inc to delete the post from the Russian embassy in the UK in violation of UK law.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed the matter while Twitter and Telegram have yet to make any further statements.
The fake news stated at least 3 children were killed in an airstrike on March 9 at a hospital near Mariupol delivered by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
According to a mixed statement from Russia, they had avoided the attack by bombing the hospital and the Kremlin said the matter was fake news.
