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Instagram to use PG-13 rating to limit content for teenagers

  • On Tuesday, Instagram announced it will limit teen content to PG-13 material and begin rolling out changes in the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada.
  • After a year of scrutiny, Instagram is overhauling teen features following Reuters' report on `romantic or sensual` AI chats and child-safety groups, including Fairplay, criticizing its safety benefits last month.
  • Instagram will implement age-gating that blocks teen accounts from seeing or messaging accounts with adult links or OnlyFans-style bios and will expand blocked searches and hide posts with strong language or drug paraphernalia.
  • Teen accounts will default to automatic private mode and cannot be changed without parents' permission, while Meta is launching a `limited content` setting that blocks comments and more.
  • Reports found teen accounts were recommended age-inappropriate sexual content, while Meta does not verify self-reported ages and its trade associations won Florida and Georgia injunctions against age checks.
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Meta tightens teen safeguards on Instagram with PG-13-style content filters

Instagram will limit what users under 18 can see on the platform using filters inspired by the PG-13 movie rating system, in the latest step by its parent Meta to address criticism.

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