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Snapchat’s parent company is taking steps to make the messaging app safer for children

Snapchat is launching a new supervision tool on Tuesday that mimics how parents and teenagers interact in the real world. The company says it mimics the way parents and teens interact.

Snapchat’s new’family center’ allows parents and guardians to keep tabs on who their teens message with on the app. Once the invites are accepted, a guardian can see the entirety of their child’s friends list and a list of accounts they’ve interacted with over the last seven days.

The feature is meant to copy real-life relationships, like when a parent lets a kid’s friends come over but does n’t monitor everything they say.

Snap plans to roll out new family center features over the next few weeks. Tools allowing parents to view new friends their children have added along with additional content controls.

Snap’s new parental controls come as lawmakers continue their work to address children’s online safety. Some of the largest tech platforms were called in to testify before Congress. Among YouTube and TikTok was a representative from snap before a Senate committee last October.

Snap’s vice president of global public policy said it was built as an antidote to social media’s. Jennifer stout said snap is distancing itself from Facebook and other social media platforms.

A Senate panel approved two bills that would restrict how tech platforms can collect and use data from young users. The legislation led to the introduction of a number of bills to tackle children’s safety online.

The children and teens’ online privacy protection act would ban tech companies from collecting the data of users between 13 and 16 years old. A second bill, the kids online safety act, would create an’eraser’ button allowing for young users to easily delete their data from platforms.

The company announced Tuesday that it was working on the family center tool it announced on Tuesday. The goal is to help educate and empower young people to make the right choices to enhance their online safety.

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