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Facebook and Instagram step up measures to prevent minors from interacting with suspicious adults

Meta announced the new measures on its official blog. | Font: Target

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facebook and Instagram have added new features to protect young users from offensive content, including more personal settings for newly created accounts, restrictions on communicating with suspicious non-contact adults, and new notifications about available resources.

Target has updated the measures it uses on its two social networks to ensure that teen users have a safe and age-appropriate experience, which is moving forward in the actions taken last year.

The tech company has set up communication barriers between adult platform users and teenagers. The goal is to prevent “potentially suspicious adults” can send messages to teens they are not related to. These adults will also not see account recommendations from underage users.

Now the company is working in the opposite direction, that is, it does not allow younger users to send messages to suspicious adults what they are not related to. They also won’t be able to see them in recommendations.

AT instagramIn addition, they have removed the message button on accounts owned by teenagers when they access them. suspicious adults. This measure is part of a test, and the company hopes to add an extra layer of protection with it, as outlined in a post on its official blog.

These are measures to prevent adult users who engaged in suspicious behavior in facebook as well as instagramthat is, have recently been blocked or registered by a teenager, they may come into contact with other minors.

New warnings and the ability to report suspicious accounts.
New warnings and the ability to report suspicious accounts. | Font: Target

More youth social media tools Meta

Target He also updated the tools available to the little ones. One is a new notification that prompts a teen to report an account after a user has been banned.

Social networks Target They also display security notices with information about what actions they can take if they encounter inappropriate messages from adults, such as restricting, reporting, or blocking certain accounts. The platform will not notify adults of the activities of minors.

Minors’ own accounts also have new default privacy settings. Starting this Monday, users under the age of 16 (18 in some countries) who create a new account on facebook they will have a default privacy setting.

This configuration restricts access to content and information, such as pages and groups the user follows, or photos tagged with friends, and recommends enabling viewing of photos the user is added to before they appear on your profile.

Also, Target said it is developing new educational tools and resources to stop the spread of intimate images of teenagers online. “Sharing intimate images without consent can be extremely traumatic, and we want to do everything we can to prevent teens from sharing these images on our apps in the first place,” the company said in a statement.

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Source: RPP

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