Technology

Thereprobably an important gap in attention being paid at internet companies to young kids that are good targets for parental controls and older ones who are having to learn to use the internet in a responsible way on their own.

Today, Facebook is releasing a new Youth Portal that offers some guidance to teens on how to navigate the service, how to stay secure, while also helping them understand how their data is used. Facebook says that that they began showing tips for teens in the newsfeed earlier this month related to some of these topics.

While many of the sections in the portal are devoted to basic topics like how to unfriend or block someone, a bitof the information is structured in more of a journalistic format focused on helping Gen Z users start their internet usage off on the right foot in a way that older generations haven&t.

In a &Guiding Principles& section, the tips are structured after oft-quoted real world advice:

Think (for 5 seconds) before you speak

Before you post publicly, pause and ask yourself, &Would I feel comfortable reading this out loud to my parents and grandparents& There will always be people at your school who are social media oversharers (and adults in your life who are, too). Resist the urge, ignore their noise and save the juicy details for your close friends only.

One of the more useful things it does is organize information related to Facebookdata policy in a more accessible way that admittedly may not answer every single question but also doesn&t overwhelm young users who may just be looking for the basics. It generally aims to address stuff like what data Facebook collects and how they use that information.

At the end of the day, itjust an information page. The Youth Portal won&t directly curb how Facebook approach cyber-bullying or abuse, but the hub does organize a lot of information that pops up on the site while you&re using it into a single place where someone can just blaze through it in a single go.

More importantly itjust a nice resource for Facebook to refer younger users to when therean issue thatmore likely to get looked at then the Terms of Service-style help pages that generally hold this information.

The Youth Portal goes live today in 60 languages.

In reaction to criticism around the use of Messenger in some countries worldwide, particularly Myanmar, Facebook has introduced new tools that it allow users of the app to report conversations that violate its community standards.

A new tab inside the Messenger app lets users flag messages under a range of categories that include harassment, hate speech and suicide. The claim is then escalated for review, Facebook said, after which it can be addressed.Previously, Messenger users could only flag inappropriate content via the web-based app or Facebook itself, thatclearlyinsufficient for a service with over a billion users, many of whom are mobile-only.

Facebook said the review team covers 50 languages. It has been widely criticised for its small team of Burmese language reviews, most of which is based in Ireland — with a six-hour time gap — although it has pledged to staff up on Burmese experts.

In April, six organizations teamed up to write a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he claimed in an interview that Facebook&systems& were able to detect and prevent hate speech in Myanmar, a country where racial tensions simmer and Facebook is considered de facto internet.

Zuckerbergclaim was incorrect, and he referred an incident last September which saw chain letters on Messenger inflame tensions. Buddhist community figures received messages warning of a planned Muslim attack, whilethosein theMuslim communitygot messages claimingthere was imminent violence planned by militant Buddhist groups.

Instead, local organizations stepped in to defuse the situation when they were made aware of it. FacebookAI or systems did nothing.

While Zuckerberg later apologized to the Myanmar-based organizations &for not being sufficiently clear about the important role that your organizations play in helping us understand and respond to Myanmar-related issues,& the group went on the offensive againstating that Facebook actions are &nowhere near enough to ensure that Myanmar users are provided with the same standards of care as users in the U.S. or Europe.&

The changes to Messenger are a start, but Facebook has a lot more to do if it is to live up to its responsibility in Myanmar, but also other countries such as Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India and beyond where there are concerns that its platforms are not adequately policed.

Indeed, a recent UN Fact-Finding Mission concludedthat social media has played a &determining role& in the Myanmar crisis, with Facebook identified as the chief actor. The issue was also raised in a Senate hearing with Zuckerberg last month.

French startup Welcome to the Jungle is raising a funding round of $8.4 million (€7 million) from XAnge, Bpifrance and Kima Ventures, as well as existing investors Jean-Paul Guisset and Michael Benabou.

Welcome to the Jungle is taking a different approach to job recruitment. The startup isn&t going to find employees for you. Instead, Welcome to the Jungle wants to give you the tools and exposure to get enough inbound applications.

The company started by profiling hundreds of tech companies in Paris. Instead of creating a giant Excel spreadsheet, Welcome to the Jungle works with a video crew, photographers and a writing staff to produce high quality content about your company. Think about it as glossy paper articles with Condé Nast-like production budget.

All of this is pricy. Companies pay for these profiles and get their own page on Welcome to the Junglewebsite. In addition to that, Welcome to the Jungle also produces quarterly magazines for a hundred universities and a thick paper magazine once per year.

And ittrue that Welcome to the Jungle has covered a ton of companies in Paris. When you think about a company name, chances are you can find a profile on Welcome to the Jungle.

Overall, a thousand companies partnered with Welcome to the Jungle. The website now attracts 600,000 unique visitors every month. For engineers, you can now filter depending on your skill set and your technical stack.

In addition to that, the startup has been slowly ramping up its software-as-a-service recruitment platform called Welcome Kit. Imagine somebody reads about your company in Welcome to the Junglemagazine and then ends up on a poorly designed job page.

Welcome Kit replaces the &Jobs& link in your websitefooter. The platform lets you list positions, create application forms and track candidates. Basic features are free and you can pay for additional features and branding options.

With todayfunding round, ittime to look further. The company now wants to expand to another country, which could be Spain. Itgoing to be a slow expansion as Welcome to the Jungle needs to put together a local team in each country to create content.