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Instagram’s Latest Teen Safety Measure: Nudity in DMs will be Automatically Blurred by Meta

Meta has announced it’s testing new features on Instagram intended to help safeguard young people from unwanted nudity or sextortion scams. This includes a feature called Nudity Protection in DMs, which automatically blurs images detected as containing nudity. Nudity screensNudity Protection in DMs aims to protect teen Instagram users from cyberflashing by putting nude images behind a safety screen. But Meta is taking a further step of not showing the “Message” button on a teen’s profile to potential sextortion accounts, i.e. For example, in July 2021 Meta switched to defaulting young people’s Instagram accounts to private just ahead of the UK compliance deadline.

Dylan Williams
April 11, 2024

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Enhanced Restrictions: Meta’s Newest Features to Monitor Teen Communication and Parental Management

Meta announced today that it is rolling out new DM restrictions on both Facebook and Instagram for teens that prevent anyone from messaging teens. What’s more, Meta is also making its parental controls more robust by allowing guardians to allow or deny changes in default privacy settings made by teens. Previously, when teens changed these settings, guardians got a notification, but they couldn’t take any action on them. Meta first rolled out parental supervision tools for Instagram in 2022, which gave guardians a sense of their teens’ usage. Meta didn’t specify what work it is doing to ensure the privacy of teens while executing these features.

Ava Patel
January 25, 2024

Apps

“Limiting Teen Screen Time: Instagram’s Latest Feature Promotes Rest with ‘Nighttime Nudges'”

Instagram is introducing new nighttime nudges for teen accounts to limit their time on the app, the company announced on Thursday. The new nighttime nudges will appear when teens have spent more than 10 minutes on Instagram in places like Reels or DMs late at night. The notice will remind teens that it’s late and encourage them to close the app and go to sleep. The nighttime nudges will be shown automatically and can’t be turned off, which means teens can’t opt in or out of seeing them. The new nighttime nudges join Instagram’s other features aimed at reducing teens’ time on its app.

Zara Khan
January 18, 2024

Enterprise

“Instagram Streamlines Operations: 60 Jobs Cut and Management Layer Eliminated”

Instagram has cut 60 technical program manager positions, eliminating a layer of management at the company, according to a new report from The Information. The impacted employees have two months to apply for other jobs at the company. After the two-month period, their employment will be terminated if they are unable to secure a different role at the company. The changes mean that Instagram is going to sharpen its focus on supporting creators who are most likely to drive teen engagement on the platform. Despite the continued and ongoing regulatory pressure that Meta is facing, Instagram is still focused on teen engagement and retention.

Ava Patel
January 12, 2024

Robotics & AI

“New Feature on Snapchat: Parental Controls for ‘My AI’ Chatbot for Teens”

Snapchat is introducing new parental controls that will allow parents to restrict their teens from interacting with the app’s AI chatbot. The changes will also allow parents to view their teens’ privacy settings, and get easier access to Family Center, which is the app’s dedicated place for parental controls. Parents can now restrict My AI, Snapchat’s AI-powered chatbot, from responding to chats from their teen. As for parents who may be unaware about the app’s parental controls, Snapchat is making Family Center easier to find. Parents can now find Family Center right from their profile, or by heading to their settings.