Teens under 16 will need permission to livestream on Instagram: Meta
Why it matters: The new safety measure is an expansion of major changes that impacted millions of accounts starting last year as part of the company's push to better protect young users.
Those policies, announced in September, meant all teenage users were automatically placed under teen accounts — and those under 16 needed a parent's permission to change their settings.
Since making those changes, Meta said in a Tuesday release, 97% of teens aged 13 to 15 have kept the built-in restrictions.
Driving the news: On top of the new automatic Instagram Live restrictions, teens under 16 will also have to get permission from a parent to turn off a feature that blurs images with suspected nudity in direct messages.
These updates will be available "in the next couple of months," per Meta's announcement.
Zoom out: Additionally, Meta announced it will begin introducing teen accounts to Facebook and Messenger beginning Tuesday.
Those accounts will offer similar built-in protections against inappropriate content.
By the numbers: There are at least 54 million users with teen accounts, Meta said.
State of play: Meta's swath of changes announced last September included new verification methods to prevent users from lying about their age to circumvent protections, Axios' Sara Fischer reported.
Teen accounts were automatically made private, and stricter message settings were implemented to filter out offensive content and unwanted contact from non-followers.
The changes also gave parents more visibility over how their teens were using Instagram, such as through tools to see who their child had been messaging.
The big picture: Researchers have identified substantial links between social media use and increased depression among teens.
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