Instagram Will Notify Parents When Teens Use Search Terms Related to Suicide

Bruce Gil / gizmodo - The new safety feature comes as social media platforms face growing legal pressure over how they affect minors.

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Instagram will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content

Anna Washenko / engadget - Instagram is adding a new alert for the parents of teen users of its social media platform. The network will alert the adult if their child repeatedly searches for terms about suicide or self-harm in a short time frame. From that notification, the parent …

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Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

Shannon Carroll / qz - In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked

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Threads now lets you personalize your feed with simple text prompts

digitaltrends - Threads is rolling out a new feature called Dear Algo that lets you temporarily adjust what appears in your feed using a simple text prompt.The post Threads now lets you personalize your feed with simple text prompts appeared first on Digital Trends.

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Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial hears

bbc - The tech giants are under scrutiny over social media addiction in a landmark jury trial in Los Angeles

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Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data On Instagram

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Last week, Nicholas Moore, 24, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court's electronic document filing system. At the time, there were no deta…

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Instagram denies data breach: So whats up with those sketchy change password emails?

mashable - Instagram said there wasn't a data breach, but the company did fix a bug that led to an external actor sending password reset emails.

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550,000 accounts gone: Meta’s first report on Australia’s social media ban

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta Platforms Inc. has deactivated nearly 550,000 accounts in Australia to comply with the nation’s new social media ban for users under 16, the company announced on Medium. This action includes 330,000 Instagram accounts, 173,000 Facebook accounts, and …

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Instagram Debuts Dedicated Television App for Amazon Fire TV

Kurt Wagner / bloomberg - Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram unveiled its first dedicated TV app, which lets users watch the short-form video feature Reels on a larger screen.

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Instagram will let you control which topics its algorithm recommends

Steve Dent / engadget - For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come to Explore and other areas of the app. Like much of wh…

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It’s Not Just You. Users Struggle With the Instagram Repost Button.

Hannah Ziegler / nytimes - The new repost option, sandwiched between comment and share, has led to consternation and accidental reposts by some users.

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Meta's Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week

cnbc - The RTO policy only applies to Instagram and not to Meta's other family of apps, like Facebook and WhatsApp.

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Meta is making billions of dollars from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, report says

engadget - Meta is making billions of dollars every year from ads marketing scams and illegal products on its platform, according to a new report from Reuters. The report details the staggering numbers behind scam ads on Meta's platform, and raises fresh questions a…

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MPA orders Meta to stop using “PG-13” label on Instagram teen accounts

Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has sent a cease and desist order to Meta, demanding that Instagram stop using the “PG-13” movie rating to describe the content standards for its teen-focused accounts. The trade group, which is responsible for the U.S…

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The MPA tells Meta to stop using PG-13 to describe teen accounts

Matt Tate / engadget - The Motion Picture Association doesn’t share Meta’s view that the content people under the age of 18 might encounter on an Instagram Teen Account is comparable to what you might find in a PG-13 movie. The MPA has reportedly hit Mark Zuckerberg’s company w…

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