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Meta Rolls Out Stricter Teen Account Settings Globally on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger
In a new update, the company says its 13+ content settings for teen accounts are being expanded globally across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger.
Meta now has 13+ teenager accounts active on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, whose aim is to curb repetitive and damaging feeds.
From today, Meta promises to enforce stringent content settings on all teen accounts on its social media platforms. This global roll-out process was announced last year, and Meta says it worked with trust-and-safety firm Alice (previously called ActiveFence) in validating and testing the teen feature before it was released.
In its post, Meta says, "The Instagram teen account with the default 13+ setting experienced 68 percent less mature content compared to the teen experience of the same age on rival social networks. When mature content was shown on an Instagram teen account, its intensity was lower than that of mature content from rivals and even from 13+-rated movies."
