Facebook to implement tools to protect teens from harmful Instagram content

Facebook will introduce new tools to protect teens from harmful Instagram content, the company's vice president said. They will allow you to limit the time of users who spend a long time on social networks, and give parents more control over teenagers' accounts.

Facebook's VP of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said the company will implement new tools on Instagram to help protect teens from psychoactive content. Instagram users will be forced to take a break in the event of a long period of time online, and parents of teenagers will be given more control over their children's accounts, CNBC reports, citing Clegg's appearances on American TV news.

The new measures will also restrict political content on Facebook, Clegg said, without elaborating on the features of the options being introduced. Speaking on ABC, he noted that one of the measures will encourage users to "take a break" if they are on Instagram for an extended period of time. Another option would be to redirect teens' attention from content that threatens their well-being to something else.

Clegg added that the company's earlier planned launch of Instagram Kids, an online service for children 13 and under, which was suspended at the end of September, will be part of the company's solutions to protect teens on the social network. He noted: “We cannot change human nature. We always see bad things on the Internet. We can do our best to try to reduce and mitigate them. " The VP of Facebook said the company's main commercial incentive is "to try to make sure the user experience on the social network is positive."