Meta Expands Teen Safety Limits Across 3 Apps as $375 Million Verdict Adds Pressure
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 2
Meta Expands Teen Safety Limits Across 3 Apps as $375 Million Verdict Adds Pressure
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 2
Meta on Tuesday rolled out new teen safety features on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, limiting how often users are shown repeated posts about nutrition, weight lifting and anxiety.
The changes also extend Instagram’s movie-style content rating system to teenagers on Facebook and Messenger, while applying the same restrictions to conversations with Meta’s A.I. chatbot.
Meta said the update builds on its 2024 Teen Accounts program, which made teen accounts private by default and added more parental controls, and was refined using parent ratings of millions of posts.
The move is Meta’s first major policy shift since a Los Angeles jury found it liable in March for harming a young woman; that month a New Mexico jury also ordered the company to pay $375 million.