The social media app says new privacy settings and features will create more age-appropriate experiences for youth under 18. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers children’s online privacy. Tens of ...

Meta announced new Instagram accounts for teens on Tuesday, which left many wondering what exactly they were, who they apply to and why Meta chose to start the new service. Meta said the new service ...

Teenagers on Instagram will soon be automatically placed in a new type of account with built-in privacy restrictions that give parents more control. On Tuesday, Meta, the social media platform’s ...

We’re rolling out easier ways to get account support and updates to keeping your Facebook and Instagram accounts even more ...

The new accounts bolster protections and add limits, the company said. Instagram this week unveiled mandatory accounts for teens that bolster privacy protections, enable parental supervision, and ...

Instagram has officially launched its new Teen Accounts feature, marking one of Meta's biggest efforts to date to bolster safety for its youngest users online. The new accounts, automatically assigned ...

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 ...

Instagram on Tuesday announced its most dramatic effort yet to protect young users from dangers on its platform, implementing new “teen account” settings that will automatically make millions of teen ...

Saheb Gulati, a senior headed to Stanford University, scrolls his Instragram feed last week at Sacramento Country Day School. (Louis Bryant III/For the Washington Post) Column by Geoffrey A. Fowler ...

Instagram is turning up the parental controls. The app will now treat teen accounts more like a PG-13 movie, automatically filtering out mature or risky content for anyone under 18. That means teens ...

Tama Leaver receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (CE200100022). He co-authored the book Instagram: ...