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Meta announced on Wednesday March 11, 2026 a new feature for its WhatsApp messaging intended for children under 13: special accounts supervised by parents. There is no doubt about the approach. The group, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, is seeking to avoid responsibility by transferring this burden to families. Meta is not the only player in the digital industry to adopt this strategy. This is a fundamental trend.
In September 2025, OpenAI presented parental control tools for its ChatGPT service. The publisher has been accused for several months of not having sufficiently secured its conversational agent. This would have played a role in the suicides of several adolescents. Google has also implemented such mechanisms to give parents the ability to manage how their children access video content on YouTube Kids.
