Meta has begun hiding sensitive content from teenagers under the age of 18 on Facebook and Instagram, a company blog announced on Tuesday. Starting now, Meta will begin removing content from feeds and ...

Journalist Taylor Lorenz reported that the platform had restricted LGBTQIA-related hashtags for months under its so-called “sensitive content policy.” Meta, the parent company of Instagram and ...

Late in 2024, Meta introduced Instagram Teen accounts, a safety net intended to protect young minds from sensitive content and ensure that they have safe online interactions, bolstered by age ...

Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives. Beginning ...

For well over a decade, psychological researchers have studied whether and to what extent social media content might pose mental health risks. In response to concerns that some of its content was ...

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Meta will begin removing some sensitive and "age-inappropriate" content from teenagers' feeds, the company said in an announcement published Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Meta says it has fixed the error that resulted in restricting LGBTQ+ content in teens' search and explore pages, but it's unclear how long the bug was active. Katelyn ...