Instagram adds new protections for accounts that mainly present children

Meta introduces additional guarantees for Instagram accounts managed by adults who mainly have children, the company announcement Wednesday. These accounts will be automatically placed in the strictest messages of the application to prevent unwanted messages and will have the platform “Hidden Words” function Activated to filter offensive comments. The company also deploys new security features for adolescent accounts.

The accounts that will be placed in the new stretch messages of messages include those managed by adults who regularly share photos and videos of their children, as well as accounts managed by parents or talent managers who represent children.

“Although these accounts are extremely used in a benign way, unfortunately, there are people who can try to abuse them, leaving sexualized comments in their messages or by asking for sexual images in the DMS, in clear violation of our rules,” wrote the company in a blog. “Today, we are announcing steps to help prevent these abuses.”

Meta says he will try to prevent potentially suspect adults, such as people who have already been blocked by adolescents, to find accounts that mainly have children. Meta will avoid recommending suspicious adults to these accounts on Instagram, and vice versa, and will make them more difficult for them to find themselves in Instagram research.

Today’s announcement occurs like Meta and Instagram taken action In the past year, to solve mental health problems related to social media. These concerns were raised by the American general surgeon and various states, some of which even have party to demand Parental consent for access to social media.

The changes will have a significant impact on the accounts of the accounts of Vloggers / Creators and parents who execute accounts for “Kidfluers”, which both have faces criticisms for associated risks With the sharing of children’s lives on social networks. A New York Times survey published last year revealed that the Parents are often aware of the exploitation of their child or even to participate, by selling photos or clothes that their child was wearing. In the NYT examination of 5,000 accounts led by parents, he found 32 million links with male followers.

The company says that the accounts that are placed in these stricter parameters will see a notification at the top of their Instagram flow by informing them that the social network has updated its security settings. The opinion will also encourage them to examine the confidentiality parameters of their account.

Meta notes that he deleted nearly 135,000 Instagram accounts that sexualized accounts that mainly have children, as well as 500,000 Instagram and Facebook accounts associated with the original accounts he had deleted.

In addition to today’s announcement, Meta also brings new security features to DMS Adolescent accountsIts application experience with integrated protections for adolescents who are automatically applied.

Teenagers will now see new options to display the security advice, reminding them of checking the profiles carefully and expecting them to share. In addition, the month and the year in which the account joined Instagram will be displayed at the top of the new cats. In addition, Instagram has added a new block and report option that allows users to do both things at the same time.

The new features are designed to give adolescents more context on the accounts they put as a message and help them identify potential crooks, says Meta.

“These new features complete the security opinions that we show to remind people to be careful in private messages and to block and report everything that makes them uncomfortable – and we are encouraged to see adolescents who respond to it,” Meta wrote in the blog post. “In June only, they blocked the accounts 1 million times and declared an additional 1 million after seeing a security notice.”

Meta has also provided an update on her Nudity protection filterNoting that 99% of people, including adolescents, maintained it. Last month, more than 40% of blurred images received in DMS remained unclear, said the company.