{"id":20551,"date":"2025-10-21T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/instagram-keeps-flubbing-on-teen-safety-will-its-new-pg-13-guidelines-make-a-difference-tayo-bero\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:37:52","slug":"instagram-keeps-flubbing-on-teen-safety-will-its-new-pg-13-guidelines-make-a-difference-tayo-bero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/instagram-keeps-flubbing-on-teen-safety-will-its-new-pg-13-guidelines-make-a-difference-tayo-bero\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram keeps flubbing on teen safety. Will its new \u2018PG-13\u2019 guidelines make a difference? | Tayo Bero"},"content":{"rendered":"

The content guardrails introduced this week feel like hollow posturing after the failure of past promises<\/p>\n

For months, Instagram has been struggling to convince parents, advocates and officials that it\u2019s a safe place for kids, even though there\u2019s a mountain of evidence to show quite the opposite. Now, the company is introducing<\/a> yet another set of guardrails that will supposedly keep teens on the platform safe. But going by their track record, parents shouldn\u2019t be smiling yet.<\/p>\n

Starting this week, all users aged under 18 will automatically be placed into the 13+ setting, which restricts their feed to content that meets the standards of the US PG-13 movie rating.<\/p>\n

Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n

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\nThe content guardrails introduced this week feel like hollow posturing after the failure of past promises
\nFor months, Instagram has been struggling to convince parents, advocates and officials that it\u2019s a safe place for kids, even though there\u2019s a mountain of evidence to show quite the opposite. Now, the company is introducing yet another set of guardrails that will supposedly keep teens on the platform safe. But going by their track record, parents shouldn\u2019t be smiling yet.
\nStarting this week, all users aged under 18 will automatically be placed into the 13+ setting, which restricts their feed to content that meets the standards of the US PG-13 movie rating.
\nTayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The content guardrails introduced this week feel like hollow posturing after the failure of past promises For months, Instagram has been struggling to convince parents, advocates and officials that it\u2019s a safe place for kids, even though there\u2019s a mountain of evidence to show quite the opposite. Now, the company is introducing yet another set …<\/p>\n

Instagram keeps flubbing on teen safety. Will its new \u2018PG-13\u2019 guidelines make a difference? | Tayo Bero<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}