The company says it’s updating the safety features for teenagers.
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Meta is rolling out new protections to keep teens safer on Instagram and Facebook — especially in DMs.
When teens start a new chat, they’ll now see safety tips front and center — along with tools to block or report accounts right away. Instagram will also show the month and year the account was created, helping flag anything suspicious.
Meta has also added a one-tap option to block and report together. And it says it flags potentially suspicious behavior — like adults messaging lots of teens — which then triggers safety alerts.
And it sounds like Meta’s safety notices are working — in June alone, users blocked 1 million accounts and reported another million after seeing them.
It’s part of a broader crackdown: Meta says it removed nearly 135,000 Instagram accounts earlier this year for sexualizing children — plus another half a million linked accounts across Instagram and Facebook.
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