The mood on Monday at the meeting of Instagram managers with Adam Mosseri, head of the photo-sharing app, was subdued.
Instagram had just announced that it would be shelving plans for a version of the app for children under 13, following a Wall Street Journal exposé about Instagram’s impact on teens.
On the video call, the employees peppered Mosseri with questions about what the team working on the kids’ product would do next and whether the project was truly dead. Mosseri said he still believed in the project and reiterated that it was on pause, though he stopped short of promising it would eventually be revived, an employee said.
For staff at Facebook, which owns Instagram, the past several weeks have been a replay of previous negative news cycles that have seemingly become routine. Inside the company, staff reactions to a recent series of stories by The Journal—which has relied on internal Facebook research and discussions about the negative effects of its products—have ranged from indifferent to frustrated, according to interviews with nearly a half-dozen current employees, along with several former employees in touch with people who still work there.
0 Commentaires