According to an investigation conducted by the youth-led nonprofit Design It For Us and watchdog Accountable Tech — later ...

In an investigation by Accountable Tech and Design It For Us, Instagram was found serving sexualized, racist, and harmful content to protected Teen accounts.

Meta promised parents it would shield teens from harmful content. Tests by young users and our tech columnist dad find it fails spectacularly in important ways.

In a blog post, Instagram says that starting today it will use AI to detect users lying about their age and automatically move those accounts to one of the limited teen accounts that debuted last fall ...

Instagram promised more "built-in protections" for young people but researchers say users are still exposed to sexualised ...

Starting today, if Instagram’s AI detects that an account may be run by a minor—through various factors like birthday posts and account interactions—that user will automatically be placed in a Teen ...

Instagram is using AI-powered age detection technology to enroll young users lying about their age into Teen Accounts.

Should AI determine the account actually belongs to a teenager, it will implement Instagram’s “Teen Account” settings. These accounts, which were rolled out last fall for users under 18 ...

Instagram is beginning to test the use of ... but photo and video-sharing app will now “proactively” look for teen accounts it suspects belong to teenagers even if they entered an inaccurate ...

Last year, the company rolled out "Teen Accounts" for Instagram, which add a number of restrictions, limitations, and features for users under the age of 18. Earlier this month, Meta rolled out ...

In September, the company announced the launch of Instagram Teen Accounts, which utilize safety features and wellness tools to try and keep teens protected on social media and encourage them to ...

Teen Accounts, which launched on Instagram last year, enroll young users into an app experience with built-in protections. The safeguards are applied to teens automatically, and limit who can ...