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Instagram defends new teen safety features after criticism
Law enforcement agencies have reported a rise in sextortion scams targeting teens across online platforms.
But Richard Collard, its associate head of child safety online policy, said that "questions remain as to why Meta are not rolling out similar protections on all their products, including on WhatsApp where grooming and sextortion also take place at scale". Antigone Davis, Meta’s head of global safety, said a new Instagram campaign aims to give children and parents information about how to spot sextortion attempts in case perpetrators evade its tools for detecting them. Sextortion, which sees scammers trick people into sending sexually explicit material before blackmailing them, has become a dominant form of intimate image abuse taking place online.
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