{"id":1517,"date":"2021-11-25T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/wisconsin-ag-wants-to-know-if-instagram-facebook-are-violating-consumer-protection-laws-wbay\/"},"modified":"2021-11-25T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:44:53","slug":"wisconsin-ag-wants-to-know-if-instagram-facebook-are-violating-consumer-protection-laws-wbay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/25\/wisconsin-ag-wants-to-know-if-instagram-facebook-are-violating-consumer-protection-laws-wbay\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin AG wants to know if Instagram, Facebook are violating consumer protection laws &#8211; WBAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) &#8211; A battle is brewing between a growing number of states, Wisconsin included, and tech giant Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook.<br \/>It\u2019s based on concerns from dozens of attorneys general involving social media\u2019s impact on young children, as well as consumer protection laws.<br \/>It should come as no surprise, especially for parents, that recent surveys show 90 percent of 13-17 year-olds have used social media, with 75 percent saying they have an active profile, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.<br \/>If that\u2019s where kids already are, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul believes there\u2019s a responsibility to make sure what youth are reading and watching online doesn\u2019t cause harm.<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s critical that any company, but certainly one of the largest companies in the world like Facebook, is taking steps to make sure that kids and young adults are safe and that the products that it\u2019s putting out there aren\u2019t causing harm,\u201d says Kaul. \u201cAnd if they are putting that out there and misrepresenting people, we\u2019re committed to making sure that they\u2019re held accountable.\u201d<br \/>To do that, Kaul and more than 40 attorneys general are participating in a nationwide investigation into Meta to see if it\u2019s violating consumer protection laws.<br \/>\u201cOne thing is Facebook appears to have been using algorithms to try to get people to keep using Instagram as much as possible and to really hook people on it. When companies are putting out products like this, they\u2019ve got to be transparent with the public about what the harms are,\u201d says Kaul. \u201cIf they haven\u2019t done that, we are going to ferret that out through this investigation and we\u2019re going to work to hold them accountable.\u201d<br \/>Kaul\u2019s concern focuses on kids\u2019 mental health, including anxiety and reduced self-esteem, especially associated with Instagram.<br \/>\u201cPeople are worried that if they\u2019re not on Instagram, they\u2019re going to be missing out on what\u2019s happening, and so that leads them to be on even more. There are these idealized images of what people\u2019s lives are like on Instagram with these photos that get posted,\u201d he explains.<br \/>In July, two months after another large, bi-partisan push from dozens of AGs, urging Instagram to toss out plans for an app targeting kids younger than 13, the platform paused the idea.<br \/>It also announced changes to how ads are targeted as well as a default setting to make accounts of young users automatically private.<br \/>The company wrote in a post online that it wants young people to enjoy using Instagram while never compromising privacy and safety.<br \/>The investigation the AGs are launching will undoubtedly take time and likely a court battle.<br \/>Until then, Kaul urges parents to go back to the basics and continually monitor their kids\u2019 online activity.<br \/>\u201cJust being involved in your kids\u2019 lives, asking them what\u2019s going on, what they\u2019re doing can help identify problems before they lead to larger problems,\u201d he adds.<br \/>More tips can be found online on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doj.state.wi.us\/dci\/icac\/icac-task-force-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin DOJ website<\/a>.<br \/><i>Copyright 2021 WBAY. 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(WBAY) &#8211; A battle is brewing between a growing number of states, Wisconsin included, and tech giant Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook.It\u2019s based on concerns from dozens of attorneys general involving social media\u2019s impact on young children, as well as consumer protection laws.It should come as no surprise, especially for parents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}