Meta to restrict teen Instagram, Facebook accounts from seeing certain content

Meta announced that it will start to hide more types of content for teens on Instagram and Facebook, in line with expert guidance, including self-harm and eating disorder content. The company said it is automatically placing all teens into the most restrictive content control settings on Instagram and Facebook and restricting additional terms in Search on Instagram and is prompting teens to update their privacy settings on Instagram in a single tap with new notifications. “We want teens to have safe, age-appropriate experiences on our apps. We’ve developed more than 30 tools and resources to support teens and their parents, and we’ve spent over a decade developing policies and technology to address content that breaks our rules or could be seen as sensitive.”