The parent company of the two social networks, Meta, announced new provisions aimed at restricting the capacity of the accounts reported as “suspects” to interact with its youngest users.
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Meta has announced, in A blog post published Monday November 21 , new measures on its two main social networks, Facebook and Instagram. The goal? Reduce the possibility for ill -intentioned adults to interact with its youngest users.
For this, Meta now intends to catalog as “suspect” any account belonging to an adult who “was recently blocked or reported by a young person,” said the company. From there, using different techniques currently in the test phase, the Mark Zuckerberg firm claims to be able to prohibit these individuals from discussing with minors, by preventing, for example, their profile of appearing in the suggested accounts To young users or by withdrawing them, when they visit the profile of a teenager, the button allowing them to send him a message.
Meta also announces that it is now automatically configuring the Facebook accounts of its users under the age of 16 (and under 18 in some countries, without specifying which one) with more restrictive criteria in terms of privacy at the time of their registration . As for those who already have an account, they are encouraged by the application to switch to these new parameters. A measure that echoes that implemented in 2021 on Instagram, while the company was under fire criticism for the damage generated by its application on young Internet users.
In parallel with these devices, Meta intends to multiply the notifications and explanations for the youngest, by encouraging them, for example, to report an account after having blocked it or by sending them the procedure to follow when they Or they receive inappropriate content from an adult. More generally, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram says it works with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC, for “National Center for Missing and Exploited”)) to the creation of a “platform global for worried adolescents that intimate images they created can be made public online without their consent “.