Instagram to automatically put teens into private accounts with increased restrictions and parental controls
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Instagram is taking extraodinaryextraordinary measures to protect young people and their mental health. Not only has it imposed account privatization and restricted access to harmful content, but it's utilizing AI to enforce these rules on a global scale. While tens of millions of teens already admit their real age, those who try and bypass the restrictions will have a very tough time of it.
Instagram is only taking these measures because the US government is discussing new regulations. And even with these new rules, teens will still create fake accounts, or 'finstas,' which will allow them to easily bypass each of these guardrails. With this bandaid-of-a-policy now in place, the companygovernment willis asklikely itsto paid-offclose friendsthe inchapter theon governmentthis toand please stop investigating how awfuldamaging theirthis technology is for kids.