IG Mental Well-being Working Group

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IG Mental Well-being Working Group on August 10, 2021 at 11:31 AM Most relevant Google/YouTube Well-being changes to our team: * "On [YouTube](https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-safety-and-digital-wellbeing-options-younger-people-youtube-and-youtube-kids/), we'll turn on take a break and bedtime reminders and turn off autoplay for users under 18." * "We'll be expanding safeguards to prevent age-sensitive ad categories from being shown to teens and we will block ad targeting based on the age, gender, or interests of people under 18." * "In the coming months, we'll turn [SafeSearch](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/510?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en) on for existing users under 18 and make this the default setting for teens setting up new accounts." on August 10, 2021 at 11:38 AM Turning off autoplay for teens seems like a huge move! on August 10, 2021 at 11:57 AM Imagine if we turned off infinite scroll for teens [emoji] on August 10, 2021 at 12:06 PM Yeah, I was thinking the same thing! Autoplay is HUGE! on August 10, 2021 at 2:19 PM Yeah, we should get more in touch with Youth Platform and IG Youth teams, since I think some mechanics changes have been discussed. One PM POC in Youth who knows about bits like parental controls is c CONFIDENTIAL - PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT MT-IG-AG-00058023