The “Instagram” platform, owned by the “Meta” company, will begin applying rules similar to the American film classification “Parental Guidance” that was introduced 41 years ago, where all users under 18 years old will be automatically placed in the “13+” category, and they will not be able to leave this setting except with the approval of their parents.

And while you hide Teen accounts Indeed, content of a sexual nature, shocking images, or content of alcohol and cigarettes, the new version will tighten restrictions further, as the platform will hide posts that contain aggressive or inflammatory language, or posts showing dangerous adventures or drug-related paraphernalia, and will also block search terms such as “alcohol” or “bloody scenes,” even if they are written with spelling errors.

“The goal is to mimic the experience of watching a movie with a PG-13 rating (parental guidance for children over 13), while aligning policies with an independent standard familiar to parents,” Meta explained.

This move comes after independent research in which a former Meta employee participated revealed that “64% of the new safety tools on Instagram are ineffective,” as the report concluded that “children are not safe on Instagram,” which Meta rejected, stressing that “parents have powerful tools at their disposal.”

It is scheduled to start Updates In the US, UK, Australia and Canada, arriving in Europe and the rest of the world early next year.

Activists expressed doubt that these changes would ensure real improvements in safety, noting that “advertisements dead “Promotions do not translate into meaningful challenges to protect teens from harmful content, and we demand transparency and independent testing of the effectiveness of these features.”