Summary
Instagram's new Teen Accounts, designed to protect children, may still allow risky content according to research by the 5Rights Foundation. They were able to make fake accounts with false birthdays and got shown inappropriate content and adult accounts.
Key Facts
- Instagram has a new feature called Teen Accounts made to protect young users.
- 5Rights Foundation, a group focused on online safety for children, did a study on these accounts.
- In their study, they made Teen Accounts using fake birthdays. Instagram did not check the ages.
- After creating these accounts, they were shown grown-up content, mean comments and were suggested to follow adult accounts.
- Instagram's owner, a company named Meta, disagreed with the report's claims.
- A new law called the Online Safety Act will soon require websites to prove they have measures in place to keep children safe.
- There are concerns about the addictiveness of Instagram and the commercial content shown.
- An additional concern is about self-harm groups on an unnamed platform.
