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“Time and Again”: Critics Doubt Meta’s Latest Instagram Safety Promise

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Quoting Meta’s history of unfulfilled promises, critics are expressing strong doubts about the company’s latest safety announcement for Instagram. The new PG-13 style system for teens is being met with a “prove it” attitude from seasoned child safety advocates.

The system itself, a default “13+” setting for under-18s, sounds promising. It aims to filter out sensitive content like profanity and risky stunts and requires parental permission to be disabled. However, the context of past failures is coloring its reception.

Rowan Ferguson of the Molly Rose Foundation captured this sentiment, stating, “Time and again Meta’s PR announcements do not result in meaningful safety updates for teens.” This reflects a deep-seated distrust born from years of what advocates see as ineffective tools and empty rhetoric.

This skepticism is further fueled by a recent independent report, involving a former Meta insider, which found the majority of the platform’s new safety tools to be ineffective. This provides concrete data to back up the critics’ long-held concerns.

As Meta rolls out the feature, it faces an uphill battle to win the trust of its harshest critics. They are demanding more than just an announcement; they want transparency, data, and access for independent researchers to verify that this time, the promise of safety is real.

 

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