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Instagram launched a tool that tells users to take a break from using the app.

Years. from where i sit, there is no area more important than youth safety, end quote. wisconsin senator tammy baldwin has been sounding the alarm about this for months, and she will be questioning mosari moments from now and joins us. thanks so much for stealing away from that hearing that we know is about to start any minute. so just yesterday, instagram released some new safety measures, they say, they wanted to announce. here they are. some "take a break" alerts, so that you're not on it in sort of a more addictive, obsessi fashion. take a stricter approach to what content it recommends to...

To truly protect teens and young adults online. >> reporter: now, just yesterday instagram put limits on contact between adults and teenagers, partal controls that weren't there before and a take a break feature. but it doesn't seem any of that is going to appease the senators. we look like we are getting into a date of the old school kind of questions, you asked, mr. mosseri how does your program work? instead, we will get into the guts of what these companies are doing and what exactly the effect may be on our children. in fact, on their inner state. the kind of typically squish yip highly s...

Instagram is toxic for teenagers, especially girls, given the reporting on this, what are you most eager hear this afternoon? what questions would you ask if you were sitting on that panel? >> i think it will be interesting to see how lawmakers require facebook to answer the questions around what it knew about it's research and what it plans to do. there is things like "take a break" and the ability to bulk delete, you can remoe all of your posts in one swoop, and it was all under the guise of safety and giving people more control. it was seen as long delayed. the fact that it is an opt in is

>> it is cynical. they know these problems existed for a long time and doing damage especially to young people right before senate hearings, pretty obvious they are trying to do that. todd: looking at these new instagram features, take a break is one of them. it will alert users after prolonged viewing sessions of 20 minutes, that applies to everybody, not just teens but teams are the target, they have a lot of time to spend, allow parents to monitor usage and set time limits and parental education hub and controls launching in march. is that enough? >> i appreciate your giving parents control...