We have announced a series of updates designed to strengthen protections for teens across Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. The updates focus on helping ensure teens are enrolled in the right protections, providing parents with greater visibility into their teen’s online experiences, and expanding safeguards that support teen wellbeing.
“Keeping teens safe is one of our most important priorities, and these updates from, 13+ content settings across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, to AI-powered age detection and new parental alerts — reflect our commitment to building age-appropriate experiences by default.” – Natasha Jog, Director, Public Policy, Meta, India
13+ Content Settings To Instagram, Facebook and Messenger Teen Accounts Globally
Instagram’s age-appropriate 13+ content rating was introduced to India recently, and now, the settings to Teen Accounts have now been rolled out globally across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. Facebook’s new 13+ default setting is designed to hide content that’s inappropriate for teens in places like Feed and Reels, and to limit teens’ ability to interact with Profiles, Pages, Groups and Events that primarily post inappropriate content. The goal is that teens should see content that’s similar to what they’d see in an age-appropriate movie by default. On Messenger, the 13+ default setting limits teens’ ability to view links to inappropriate Facebook content, or to chat with accounts that primarily share inappropriate content on Facebook.
