Meta promotes even more protections for teenagers. This is new
Meta announced its latest efforts on its social media to enhance safety for teens and children. App. The company advertises These new features on Instagram and Facebook may attempt to contact you via direct message in your blog posts, especially by adding information and warnings about your account’s teenagers.
“We added new safety features to DMS on our teenage accounts, providing more context for the accounts that teenagers are sending messages to and helping us find potential scammers,” the post explained. “Now, teens will be showing safe tips and new options to block accounts. They will also block the month and year that accounts have joined Instagram. All of these will be visible at the top of the new chat.”
DMs are also given new blocks and reporting capabilities. Meta’s claims allow and encourage users to do both when they encounter a rough account.
The company also reported that 1 million teen accounts reported or blocked their accounts in June, and another million people used the location notification feature to see if they were in another country.
It’s in the meta He faced many accusations over the years About The impact of the platform on minors. last year, Bomb accusations have appeared Memoirs from Meta’s whistleblower claim that the company provided advertisements to teenagers based on their emotional state.
Meta has denied those claims, but has taken steps to provide in recent years. Improved safety features for minor users On that platform, it is built around New “Teen Account” Which of Limit your ability Young users who are contacted Please refer to specific content.
Meta also develops similar protections for adult-run accounts that share a lot of child-related content, such as those who post photos and videos of children, and describe their children as managed by parents. In a blog post, such accounts “are used in an overwhelmingly benign way, but unfortunately there are people who may try to misuse them, leave sexual comments under the post, or seek sexual images on DMS.”
With these family blog style accounts, Meta “extends protections such as automatically placing these accounts in the strictest messaging settings to prevent unnecessary messages and turn on hidden words that filter offensive comments.
The changes will unfold in the coming months. Meta did not respond to requests for further comment prior to publication.