{"id":32928,"date":"2021-03-16T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32928"},"modified":"2021-03-16T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:30:49","slug":"teen-safety-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32928","title":{"rendered":"TEEN SAFETY UPDATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram will start restricting direct messages between teen users and adults they do not follow as part of a broader set of teen-centered safety updates the platform announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The feature will send adults who try to message a teen who doesn&#8217;t follow them a notification that direct messaging the teen user isn\u2019t an option, Instagram said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it&#8217;s needed:<\/strong>\u00a0Instagram requires users to be at least 13 years old to make an account. But the company acknowledged that young users sometimes lie about their date of birth.<\/p>\n<p>The privacy updates, using new artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, aim to help keep teens \u201csafer\u201d and apply \u201cage-appropriate\u201d features, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The app will also prompt teen users to be more cautious about interactions in their direct messages through safety notices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram will start restricting direct messages&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32929,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32928\/revisions\/32929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}