2 min learnNew DelhiMar 22, 2026 09:47 AM IST
Pinterest CEO Invoice Prepared known as on world leaders to ban social media for youth underneath 16 in a LinkedIn publish on Friday. Prepared posted his assertion whereas a trial is underneath means in Los Angeles about youth social media use. Google and Meta face allegations that their apps are fueling a youth psychological well being disaster. The jury is deliberating on a verdict.
“We want a transparent commonplace: no social media for teenagers underneath 16, backed by actual enforcement, and accountability for cell phone working programs and the apps that run on them,” Prepared wrote in an essay posted on his LinkedIn account. Pinterest is an image-sharing platform. Prepared pointed to Australia’s ban on social media for youth underneath 16 as a mannequin. Pinterest’s spokesperson declined to remark on the publish.
In calling for the ban, Prepared is taking a special place than the leaders of the world’s largest know-how corporations. These corporations are going through rising stress from regulators, courts and lawmakers to vary how kids and teenagers use their merchandise due to their psychological well being impacts.
Customers should be 13 to join a Pinterest account within the U.S., based on the corporate’s web site.
The corporate lately has tried to place itself as a go-to website for Technology Z, broadly outlined as folks born between 1997 and 2012. A 3rd of Pinterest’s customers are ages 17-25, based on Apptopia, a analysis agency.
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