CNN - Instagram on Tuesday announced its most dramatic effort yet to protect young users from dangers on its platform, implementing new settings that will automatically make millions of teen accounts private and restrict what kinds of content those users can view on the app. The change to how Instagram lets teens use its platform comes nearly three years after the explosive “Facebook Papers” first drew mass attention to the risks the platform poses for young users.
The new restrictions are also designed to push teens to adopt parental supervision through the app. Instagram will automatically apply the new “teen accounts” settings to all users under the age of 18. After the update, 16- and 17-year-old users will be able to manually change the app back to their preferred settings, but 13- to 15-year-old users will be required to obtain parental approval for any such changes.
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