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During today ’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearingon kids ’ online safety , Snap CEO Evan Spiegel shared that 20 million teenager apply Snapchat in the United States and that around 200,000 parents use its Family Center supervision control . He also shared that approximately 400,000 teen accounts have been link up to a parent ’s account statement through Family Center . Spiegel ’s testimony marks the first time that Snap has shared substantial - humankind metric function regarding the custom of Snapchat ’s parental controls .
Snapchat’sFamily Center , which allows parents to see who their teens are acquaintance with on the app and who they have been transmit with , first launched in 2022 .
Spiegel shared the numbers after Senator Alex Padilla ( D - Calif ) asked the CEO ’s of Meta , TikTok , X and Discord to disclose how many child were using their platforms and how many parents were using maternal supervision control offered by the servicing .
“ WecreateabannerforFamilyCenterontheuser’sprofiles , ” Spiegel said after being asked what Snapchat was doing to ensure parent and defender are aware of the tools . “ Sotheaccountswebelievemay betheagethattheycanbeparentscanseetheentrypointintoFamilyCentereasily . ”
Snap introduced the parental controls in response toincreasedpressureon societal networks to well protect minor users from harm . Snapchat ’s rollout of Family Center followed the launches of similar parental control features across other apps , includingInstagram , TikTokandYouTube .
Spiegel was the only CEO to portion out act in response to Senator Padilla ’s question .
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg say he was unable to provide specific numbers , but say that the company runs “ wide ad crusade ” both on its platform and outside to raise awareness of its paternal supervision tools .
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Adam CEO Linda Yaccarino share that less than 1 % of the political platform ’s 90 million U.S. users are between the ages of 13 and 17 , and that the caller is discussing parental controls .
“ Beinga14 - calendar month - oldcompanywehavereprioritizedchildprotectionandsafetymeasures , ” Yaccarino said . “Wehavejustbeguntotalkaboutanddiscusshowwecanenhancethosewithparentalcontrols . ”
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew enunciate he was ineffectual to portion out specifics , but that TikTok was “ one of the first platforms ” to give parents supervising controls . Discord CEO Jason Citron tell that Discord bring up awareness of its parental controls through promotional videos and in - app command prompt .
Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage paternal consent for apps , not Meta
Mark Zuckerberg defends teen creators ’ right to public Instagram report
