Facebook is working internally on the development of a new version of its Instagram social network aimed at underage users, specifically those under 13 years of age, below the current minimum version of the app for adults.
This has been revealed by internal documents of executives of the social network. In them, Instagram VP of Product Vishal Shah assured her employees that “youth work has been identified as a priority” in the first half of 2021.
In this way, the Instagram Product group will focus on “developing a version that allows people under 13 to use the app for the first time“.
As an additional aspect, Instagram also plans to “accelerate work on integrity and privacy” so that its main version and the new version for minors “ensure the safest possible experience for teenagers.”
According to the internal Facebook document, those in charge of supervising the new project for the version of Instagram for minors are the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, and the vice president of the social network, Pavni Diwanji, who participated in the development of YouTube Kids in his previous stage in Google.
K. Tovar
Source: Xataka
