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Meta brings ‘teen accounts’ to Facebook and Messenger


Like on Instagram, Meta will begin automatically moving younger teens to to "teen accounts."

Like on Instagram, the company will begin automatically moving younger teens to the new accounts, which come with mandatory parental control features and restrictions on who they can message and interact with. The company first introduced the feature on Instagram last fall and now has 54 million teens with the more locked-down accounts. Teens won’t be able to interact with unknown contacts or change certain privacy settings unless a parent approves the action.

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