Meta enhances safety, Insta blocks teenager from livestream

Meta Platforms Inc. is expanding safety for adolescent users of its Instagram, Facebook and Messenger apps, which is the latest attempt to calm down the social-networking company to calm the critics that calm the social-networking company.
Teenagers under the age of 16 will no longer be able to host live videos without parents’ permission or share suspected nudity images through direct messages, the company said on Tuesday. Meta is rolling “adolescent accounts” with more stringent privacy settings for users on Facebook and Messenger, which after releasing them on Instagram before September. Adolescent accounts prevent users under the age of 18 to prevent sensitive materials, send private messages to some users or public accounts that can be easily discovered. While 16- and 17-year children can change those settings, Instagram does not allow young teenagers to do so without parents’ consent.
Meta said that so far 97% of the teenagers aged 13 to 15 have kept those settings on, Meta said, 54 million users now eat teenagers. Under the company’s more restrictive material settings for adolescents, recent changes in meta policies that allow some abusive language, such as insulting the language against transgender and non-binary people, will not apply to users under 18 years of age.
A Meta spokesperson said, “There is no change in how we treat children that exploit children, or materials that encourage suicides, self-disorders or food disorders, nor our bullying and harassment policies change for people under 18 years of age.”
The company has taken additional measures to protect teenagers after years of criticism on inability to save young people online.