Instagram has officially launched its new Teen Accounts feature, marking one of Meta's biggest efforts to date to bolster safety for its youngest users online. The new accounts, automatically ...

Starting today, Instagram will begin putting new and existing users under the age of 18 into “Teen Accounts” — a move that will affect how tens of millions of teens interact with the platform.

Instagram is placing teens in a protective bubble. Starting this week, it will begin automatically making youth accounts private, with the most restrictive settings. And younger teens won’t be ...

Gardaí are continuing their search for a young mum and her son, aged 8, who have now been missing from their home in Drogheda ...

Instagram on Tuesday announced its most dramatic effort yet to protect young users from dangers on its platform, implementing new “teen account” settings that will automatically make millions ...

Deep breath. You can recover an account that's been hacked on Instagram. Here's how to do it—and protect your profile from hackers. There’s a new kind of Instagram takeover these days—and it ...

By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers children’s online privacy. Tens of millions of teenagers with Instagram accounts may soon find their public profiles made private. That’s because ...

The ways we use Instagram are full of flirting potential. In fact, a former Instagram staffer recently told me that the stories feature has pretty much become a dating product. And a former Bumble ...

Natasha Singer covers children’s online privacy. Instagram unveiled a sweeping overhaul on Tuesday to beef up privacy and limit social media’s intrusive effects for users who are younger than ...

Instagram is overhauling the way it works for teenagers, promising more "built-in protections" for young people and added controls and reassurance for parents. The new “teen accounts” are ...