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Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content

Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.

Apps, Instagram, Meta, parents, Safety, Social, social media, Teens

Instagram head pressed on lengthy delay to launch teen safety features, like a nudity filter, court filing reveals

An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn’t launch its unwanted nudity filter until 2024.

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Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens

Meta’s CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.

Apps, Court, Instagram, kids, lawsuit, Meta, Social, social media, Social media addiction, Teens

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky’s app

Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ’s E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

Apps, Bluesky, E2EE, germ, germ network, private messaging, Social, social media, Startups