Facebook Urged to Stop <br />Instagram for Children Plans.<br />The Campaign for a Commercial-free Childhood issued a letter urging the social media giant to <br />halt its plans for an Instagram for young children.<br />The current legal age to <br />join the app is 13 years old.<br />The letter, signed by 99 groups <br />and individuals, cites research from <br />The Royal Society for Public Health.<br />which ranked Instagram as the <br />worst social media platform<br />for youth mental health.<br />Facebook, which owns Instagram, has <br />been under increasing pressure to prevent <br />young children from joining the app.<br />We want to ... find practical solutions to the ongoing <br />industry problem of kids lying about their age to access apps, Facebook, via BBC
