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Instagram to use PG-13 rating to limit content for teenagers
Instagram will restrict teen content to PG-13 standards, blocking access to adult accounts and expanding parental controls, Meta said on Tuesday.
- 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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Instagram Announces New Restrictions for Teens, Guided by PG-13 Ratings
Instagram Teen Accounts will be guided by PG-13 movie ratings, Meta announced on Oct. 14. “This means that teens will see content on Instagram that’s similar to what they’d see in a PG-13 movie,” the company said in a statement. Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, revamped its program to follow an “independent standard” familiar to parents. “While of course there are differences between movies and social media, we made these changes…
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