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One of the most important areas where Pinterest has been innovating over the years is youth safety and health on our platform. Super proud of our product and engineering teams involved with our latest effort to do right by our younger users: an experimental prompt on the Pinterest platform that will encourage students who open Pinterest in class to close the app, turn off device notifications, and focus on their learning.
This year, Pinterest became the first major tech company to call for states and school districts to adopt phone-free school policies to limit the distraction of smartphones and apps in classrooms. We were crystal clear: we won’t just talk the talk, but we'll walk the walk with real actions to support those policies. Today, I’m proud to announce Pinterest is taking important steps to follow through on that vision: - First, we are launching an experimental in-app prompt on Pinterest that will display during school hours to minors, encouraging them to close Pinterest and providing a link to pause device notifications across the phone so students can focus on class. - And second, we're implementing a $1 million partnership with the ISTE to support school districts across the country with digital citizenship and well-being programs. This comes on top of my continuing engagement with state governors, policymakers and other leaders. We have the chance to empower a bright new generation of young people to become responsible digital citizens, and I hope tech companies will join Pinterest in backing phone-free school policies and come to the table with solutions. See more in my TIME Magazine op-ed here: https://lnkd.in/gGpJJVrZ