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Instagram has recently announced new policies to protect the presence of minors online..
The Meta platform stated that, starting today, it will begin placing teens who sign up for Instagram into Teen Accounts, and it will also notify teens already using Instagram about these changes..
Instagram Teen Accounts have built-in protection, which limits who can contact them and the content they see, and also provides new ways for teens to explore their interests..
In the post, the company stated that it will automatically place teens into Teen Accounts, and teens under 16 will need a parents permission to change any of these settings to be less strict..
The new Teen Account protections are designed to address parents biggest concerns, including who their teens are talking to online, the content theyre seeing and whether their time is being well spent..
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