Instagram allows access for teenagers but limits content to PG-13
In April 2025, popular online platform Instagram launched a device aimed at monitoring teens with their online activities. It was testing the use of AI to flag underage users who lie about their age, as part of new measures to better protect teens online, parent company Meta said. The platform will now “proactively” look for teen accounts it suspects belong to underage users, even if those users entered a false birthdate when signing up.
Philippine senator Panfilo Lacson introduced in July 2025 a bill that seeks to regulate social media usage among minors to protect the mental health and well-being of Filipino youth. The proposed legislation aims to impose strict age restrictions and penalties for violations to address growing concerns about the detrimental effects of excessive social media use.
On October 14, parent company Meta announced that teenagers on Instagram will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission. This means kids using teen-specific accounts will see photos and videos on Instagram that are similar to what they would see in a movie rated PG-13 in the United States — no sex, drugs, or dangerous stunts, among other restrictions.
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“This includes hiding or not recommending posts with strong language, certain risky stunts, and additional content that could encourage potentially harmful behaviors, such as posts showing marijuana paraphernalia,” Meta said in a blog post on Oct. 14, calling the update the most significant since it introduced teen accounts last year.
The company is also adding an even stricter setting that parents can set up for their children. Meta said the update will be rolled out first in the US, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, and elsewhere by the end of the year. The changes come as the social media giant faces relentless criticism over harms to children. As it seeks to add safeguards for teens, Meta has already promised it wouldn’t show inappropriate content to young people.
But this does not always work. A recent report, for instance, found that teen accounts researchers created were recommended age-inappropriate sexual content, including “graphic sexual descriptions, the use of cartoons to describe demeaning sexual acts, and brief displays of nudity.”
In addition, Instagram also recommended a “range of self-harm, self-injury, and body image content” on teen accounts that the report says “would be reasonably likely to result in adverse impacts for young people, including teenagers experiencing poor mental health, or self-harm and suicidal ideation and behaviors.” Meta says the new restrictions go further than its previous safeguards.
Reference: Instagram to use PG-13 rating to limit content for teenagers
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