Social media companies YouTube, TikTok and Snap will tout established protections of teen privacy to counter lawmaker questioning at a Tuesday hearing, seeking to distance themselves from the criticism faced by rival Facebook. The three social media companies will seek to set themselves apart from Facebook in their approach to online safety. YouTube plans to tell the panel that its YouTube Kids, created in 2015, provides parents with tools to control and customise the app for children, according to remarks shared with Bloomberg. The company will say that kids under 13 who aren’t in a parental “supervised experience” are not allowed on YouTube. The law currently restricts collection of personal information of children under age 13.
