Meta's bringing changes to Facebook and Instagram that include increased profile protections and gatekeeping the messaging button.
, Meta further detailed its initiative to add safeguards to its Facebook and Instagram products that will hopefully protect teenage users from “potentially suspicious adults.” The major overhaul in this initiative was Meta setting new privacy defaults for teen Facebook profiles.will automatically be enrolled in the new settings, which includes restricting who is able to view your friends list, tagged posts, pages and people you follow, as well as who is allowed to comment on your posts.
Meta also announced that it is currently partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to construct a resource for teen s who are concerned that lewd images of them are being non-consensually distributed. Details were sparse on what this platform will look like, and neither NCMEC or Meta immediately returned Gizmodo’s request for comment.
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