Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics
Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics

Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide. Meta says a similar alert system for its AI chatbots is coming later this year. The new Instagram feature sends parents an alert when their child “repeatedly tries to search for terms clearly associated with […]

Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content

Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.

Instagram comes to Google TV, if you prefer mindless doomscrolling on a giant screen

After launching on Fire TV, Instagram’s TV app is now available on Google TV in the U.S., as Meta bets that short-form video and passive scrolling belong on the biggest screen in the house.
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Instagram head pressed on lengthy delay to launch teen safety features, like a nudity filter, court filing reveals

An email chain with Instagram head Adam Mosseri indicated the company was aware of teen safety issues in DMs in 2018, but didn’t launch its unwanted nudity filter until 2024.

Instagram’s TV app is launching on Google TV devices

By bringing Reels to TVs, Instagram looking to better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space.

Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?
Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?

As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible,” Mosseri lamented. “Everything that made creators matter – the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked – is now accessible to anyone with the right tools.” […]

Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens

Meta’s CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.

Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use

An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.

Your next binge on Instagram could be creator-made mini dramas

Instagram seems to be working on its own spin of the popular short vertical drama format.
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‘This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains’ — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media

As one lawyer labels social media platforms “digital casinos” that create dopamine addiction in children, Meta and YouTube dispute the claim.