Instagram users on Feb. 26 reported being shown explicit and violent Reels. Meta apologized for the incident, which was said to have been caused by an error. Content ...

Meta has begun hiding sensitive content from teenagers under the age of 18 on Facebook and Instagram, a company blog announced on Tuesday. Starting now, Meta will begin removing content from feeds and ...

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Journalist Taylor Lorenz reported that the platform had restricted LGBTQIA-related hashtags for months under its so-called “sensitive content policy.” Meta, the parent company of Instagram and ...

Teenagers on Instagram will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won't be able to change their settings ...

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, has been accused of restricting LGBTQ-specific content on its platforms. According to journalist Taylor Lorenz, reporting on her User Mag ...

Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives. Beginning ...

Meta has announced major improvements to safeguard the online experiences of teenagers on Facebook and Instagram in response to ongoing concerns and controversies surrounding the impact of its ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Meta says it has fixed the error that resulted in restricting LGBTQ+ content in teens' search and explore pages, but it's unclear how long the bug was active. Katelyn ...

For well over a decade, psychological researchers have studied whether and to what extent social media content might pose mental health risks. In response to concerns that some of its content was ...