Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram rolled out new safety features for teens and kids – admitting that it was forced to block nearly 135,000 accounts earlier this year for predatory behavior.
Meta – which has faced heat from federal and state officials over its failure to protect kids – said on Wednesday its safety teams blocked the nearly 135,00 accounts “for leaving sexualized comments or requesting sexual images from adult-managed accounts featuring children under 13.”
“We also removed an additional 500,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts that were linked to those original accounts,” the company said in a blog post.
Teen users will get new warnings about unknown accounts. Meta
“We let people know that we’d removed an account that had interacted inappropriately with their content, encouraging them to be cautious and to block and report,” the post added.
Now, teen users will be given more information when unknown accounts send them direct