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Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram’s parental supervision program.

Instagram says it already blocks such content from showing up in teen accounts’ search results and directs people to helplines instead.

The announcement comes as Meta is in the midst of two trials over harms to children. A trial underway in Los Angeles questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm minors. Another, in New Mexico, seeks to determine whether Meta failed to protect kids from sexual exploitation on its platforms. Thousands of families — along with school districts and government entities — have sued Meta and other social media companies claiming they deliberately design their platforms to be addictive and fail to protect kids from content that can lead to depression, eating disorders and suicide.

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[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 27 points 1 day ago

Forcing people to give their picture to Peter Thiel is not regulation. Age verification laws are giving companies more licence to abuse users, not less.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Respectfully, I've heard all the arguments and do not care to litigate it again.

What you and I think is immaterial. These are the only realistic outcomes in the current ecosystem. You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Parental controls are a thing that exist. Used to be parents were responsible for monitoring what their children do, not the government or private corporations

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

“Cigarettes now with filters!”

Parents everywhere: oh thank goodness

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

I'm gonna make a statement and then say I don't want to talk about the thing I just brought up.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

If you don't want to discuss something just don't respond lol

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