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Instagram on Tuesday announced its most dramatic effort yet to protect young users from dangers on its platform, but for Utah ...

Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, is most tellingly targeting the news outlet Russia Today, now called RT, with the ban rolled out globally over the coming days to help curb Russia's ...

Meta is introducing Teen Accounts on Instagram so younger users can use the platform more safely. Anyone under 16 will ...

Instagram is introducing separate teen accounts for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid growing backlash against how social media affects young people's lives.

Facebook owner Meta META.O said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its ...

Instagram's new Teen Accounts will limit who can contact teens on the app and what type of content younger users encounter.

Meta on Tuesday announced the creation of "Teen Accounts," designed to better protect underage users from the dangers ...

Meta acknowledges that teenagers may lie about their age and says it will require them to verify their ages more often.

Meta says it will now place teen users into teen accounts on Instagram to combat their access to inappropriate content and ...

Teenagers on Instagram will soon be automatically placed in a new type of account with built-in privacy restrictions that ...

Instagram will automatically place new teen users into Teen Accounts and begin moving existing accounts over in a bid to ...