Meta’s head of youth product initiatives departs the company.

The vp who led youth product initiatives at Meta, Fb’s father or mother firm, is leaving after an inner restructuring, in keeping with an organization memo on Wednesday that was obtained by The New York Instances.

Pavni Diwanji, who joined in late 2020 and beforehand supervised YouTube Children at Google, “determined to maneuver on” after the restructuring, in keeping with the be aware from Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s chief government. Beneath Mr. Mosseri, Ms. Diwanji had been tapped to guide the corporate’s “Youth workstream.” She was answerable for growing merchandise like age verification and parental supervision instruments, in addition to experiences of Meta’s apps that might be utilized by kids below 13.

Probably the most distinguished of these efforts was a youth model of Instagram, which the corporate mentioned it might postpone in September after The Wall Avenue Journal reported on inner analysis that steered some younger folks confronted destructive psychological well being impacts from the favored photo-sharing app. Instagram’s leaders had argued {that a} youth model was crucial as a result of kids have been already utilizing the principle app, whereas critics noticed it as a way by which the corporate might appeal to customers at a youthful age.

“Pavni has been an incredible champion for her groups and drive for this cross-company effort,” Mr. Mosseri wrote in his be aware.

Ms. Diwanji didn’t reply to a request for remark.

Stephanie Otway, a Meta spokeswoman, mentioned in an announcement that the corporate was nonetheless “growing protected, age-appropriate experiences for teenagers.”

Meta has confronted a firestorm of criticism from lawmakers over its merchandise for kids. Mr. Mosseri has said that work on the kids’s model of Instagram “leaked means earlier than we knew what it might be” and that the corporate had “few solutions” for the general public on the time.

In December, he testified in entrance of a Senate subcommittee on shopper safety. Lawmakers chastised him and the corporate for not doing sufficient to guard younger folks.

Mr. Mosseri mentioned in his be aware on Wednesday that he would proceed to function the chief behind the youth effort, which “stays a excessive precedence throughout Meta.”

“I do know the groups have labored onerous to make sure that youth is a key consideration in product improvement throughout the corporate — together with in VR and Messenger — and I’ll proceed to be an advocate for collaboration and coordination right here,” he wrote.