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Mount Pleasant-based law firm Motley Rice LLC released a statement on Sept. 17 in relation to Instagram's decision to make millions of teen accounts private in the interest of increasing parental supervision. As reported by NPR , Instagram's parent company, Meta, is now preventing minors under the age of 16 from modifying restriction settings on the accounts in question.
These restrictions, it was noted, can filter out objectionable language and impede individuals from messaging youngsters. “While these measures are welcomed, they should — and could — have been implemented years ago, before the hundreds of families we represent experienced the harms of social media addiction. Time and again, Instagram and its parent company Meta shelved important safety features that could have avoided compulsive use and danger to kids — only to return to those features and publicly tout them in response to PR crises.
The safety of our kids should never be an afterthought for any technology company. As the MDL progresses, we will hold these defendants accountable for the extensive harm their products have inflicted on young users,” said Multidistrict Litigation co-lead attorney Previn Warren, who works out of Motley Rice's Washington D.C.
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