"For months, Instagram has been struggling to convince parents, advocates and officials that it's a safe place for kids, even though there's a mountain of evidence to show quite the opposite. Now, the company is introducing yet another set of guardrails that will supposedly keep teens on the platform safe. But going by their track record, parents shouldn't be smiling yet."
"Meta itself estimated that about 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagram were experiencing online sexual harassment each day. This is unsurprising, given that as of July 2020 (according to an internal Meta chat made public through a New Mexico lawsuit against the company), the actions being taken to prevent child grooming on the platform lay somewhere between zero and negligible."
Instagram will automatically place all users under 18 into a 13+ setting that restricts feeds to content meeting US PG-13 standards. Historical evidence shows minors remain exposed to unsafe content and unwanted messages despite past safety measures. Meta estimated about 100,000 children experienced online sexual harassment daily on Facebook and Instagram. Internal chats revealed actions to prevent child grooming were negligible as of July 2020. A New Mexico lawsuit alleges Meta's networks have become hubs for child predators. Whistleblower-led research found 64% of new safety tools for teen accounts were ineffective and substantial shares of young teens encountered unsafe content weekly.
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