To make its social apps safe for teenagers, Meta has developed a series of tools aimed at ensuring protection from various types of scammers. Last weekend, the social networking giant announced its new set of tools to prevent sextortion scams and protect teens from nude content. However, Meta recently defaulted to stricter messaging settings for teens, preventing them from receiving messages from people they aren’t connected to. The company felt it was necessary to introduce a new layer of protection given the methods used by sextortion scammers.
It’s no secret that sextortion scammers often use private messages to share or request intimate images. To prevent this, Mehta confirmed in an Instagram DM that a new nudity protection feature will soon be tested.
This new feature blurs images that are detected to contain nudity. According to Meta, this nudity protection feature is intended to prevent unwanted nudity from appearing in DMs and to protect users from scammers who send nude images in return for images of themselves. It is designed as.
The Nudity Protection feature is enabled by default for youth under 18 worldwide, and adults are also shown a notification so they can decide whether to turn on the feature. Additionally, Instagram users who try to forward nude images will see a message asking them to reconsider.
In addition to its nudity protection features, Meta announced that it is developing technology to help identify accounts that may be involved in sextortion fraud.
One of the latest additions to Instagram is to prevent potentially sextortion accounts from sending messages to teens.messagebutton on the teen’s profile, even if they are connected.
Finally, Meta hides teen users from potentially sextorting accounts in people’s followers, follows, and likes lists, making it harder for these accounts to find teen accounts in search results. We have announced that we are conducting a test.
