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Instagram to Notify Parents
Instagram will notify parents signed up to supervision if teens repeatedly search suicide-related terms to connect users to support and prevent harm, starting next week.
- Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms Inc, said on Thursday it will alert parents enrolled in its parental supervision program if teens repeatedly search suicide or self-harm terms, starting next week.
- As governments consider new rules, Instagram announced Thursday it will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide terms, amidst legal scrutiny over platform harms.
- Under the plan, alerts will go only to parents enrolled in Instagram's parental supervision program via email, text, WhatsApp, and notifications on the parent's Instagram account, while teen accounts block such searches.
- Meta said the goal is to empower parents to intervene if teen users' searches indicate a need for support, but cautioned that too many alerts could reduce their usefulness.
- In the trial setting, Zuckerberg told the court that he still agrees the existing body of scientific work has not proved social media causes mental health harms.
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Suicide, self-mutilation... When teenagers do research with terms related to this, parents will now be informed, through parental supervision.
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- 55% of the sources are Center
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C 55%
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