The move comes as Instagram’s parent company, Meta, and other social media platforms face ongoing scrutiny over the safety of their products, particularly for young people. In Los Angeles, a consolidated group of cases with more than 1,600 plaintiffs, including more than 350 families and over 250 school districts, are accusing Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and … Read more
Meta-owned Instagram will soon alert parents if their teenage child uses the app to search for content related to suicide or self-harm, the technology company’s latest effort to shore up safety features as it faces heat over how social media impacts young people. Meta said that, starting next week, parents who use Instagram’s supervision tools … Read more
The FBI rescued a 13-year-old girl who was lured to a California motel room by a Pennsylvania man she met online who allegedly groomed her to send him sexually explicit images and to commit self-harm. Matthew Edward Pysher, 18, had been in contact with the victim for three months before he and the girl met … Read more