Here’s everything you need to know about Facebook, Instagram’s new privacy features for teens

Meta on Monday announced new updates to Instagram and Facebook aimed at protecting teens from online predators. These include stricter privacy controls by default on Facebook for teens, new tools that kids can use to report someone suspicious and an under-development platform to stop the spread of teens’ intimate images.

Cutting off interaction between ‘suspicious adults’ and teens

Facebook and Instagram already restrict adults from messaging teens they aren’t connected to or from seeing teens in their friends’/follow suggestions. But the feature is now being extended to prevent teens from seeing suspicious adults on their recommendations as well. Meta is also testing the removal of the message button altogether when suspicious adults view teens’ profiles.