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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The PG-13 internet fantasy
Instagram is starting to look more like TV, a move that might make some parents happy but ultimately proves that tech companies are getting closer to total victory in their campaign to capture as much of our attention as possible. The company just announced a new default content setting for Teen Accounts that promises to show teen users only content that’s “similar to what they’d see in a PG-13 movie.” (There are also new settings that serve rou…
Instagram implements age-gating and search filters for teen safety
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) – Meta, which owns Instagram, says it will start cracking down on sexualized content and other adult material for teenagers who use the social media app. One restriction that Instagram will be using is called ‘age-gating.’ It will block all teen accounts from seeing or chatting with an account that will regularly share age-inappropriate videos or pictures. A second restriction will block teens’ search results for a wi…
New filter is automatically activated on all teenage accounts worldwide by the end of the year – in some countries the setting applies now.
In front of a wave of criticisms and ban plans, Instagram revealed that it is reforming the form as adolescents can use their application. Part of the lecture of platforms of the technological giant...
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.
In addition to the rating, Meta also announced stricter parental settings.
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