US EditionInstagram 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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New filter is automatically activated on all teenage accounts worldwide by the end of the year – in some countries the setting applies now.
Instagram accounts for teens go PG-13
Instagram has tightened content filtering for teen accounts to be in tune with PG-13 ratings standards used for films.The move comes as Meta and other social media platforms face pressure to show they aren’t putting profit and engagement over the well-being of users, especially children.Read the full story on Times2.
Meta places new safeguards on teen Instagram accounts, introduces PG-13-guided content filters
Instagram will moderate the content for users under 18 using filters guided by the PG-13 movie rating system, the platform's parent company Meta announced on Tuesday in its latest effort to address concerns about teenagers' online safety.The new system will restrict posts featuring strong language, risky stunts, drugs or other content that "could encourage potentially harmful behaviors." The rules will also apply to Meta's generative AI tools.Un…
Instagram implements new guidelines for accounts for teenagers as NC lawmakers try to address issue
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — There are new restrictions on Instagram accounts for teenagers. It's Meta’s — the parent company of both Instagram and Facebook — latest attempt to protect kids from seeing potentially harmful content. This is also something lawmakers and other leaders here in North Carolina have tried to tackle. All accounts for teens younger than 18 will be controlled with PG-13 settings, just like movies. This means they'll only see con…
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