Meta-owned platform Instagram has announced that they are rolling out a feature that defaults accounts for new users under 16 years old to ‘less’, the most restrictive setting for Sensitive Content Control.
According to ANI, teenagers already on Instagram will get push notifications “encouraging” them to opt-in to the heavier filtering on what the algorithm shows them across Search, Explore, Hashtag Pages, Reels, Feed Recommendations, and Suggested Accounts.
The ‘Standard’ setting in Instagram only lets users see some content deemed sensitive, while the ‘Less’ option tightens the restrictions even further, and the ‘More’ option allows users to see more sensitive content or accounts than the default settings, ANI reported from Washington.
While users over 18 years old typically have access to ‘Standard’, ‘Less’, and ‘More’, teenagers currently only have access to ‘Standard’ and ‘Less’.
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