"While people overwhelmingly use DMs (direct messages) to share what they love with their friends, family or favourite creators, sextortion scammers may also use private messages to share or ask for intimate images," Meta said in a blogpost. "To help address this, we’ll soon start testing our new nudity protection feature in Instagram DMs, which blurs images detected as containing nudity and encourages people to think twice before sending nude images," it added. Meta Testing New Tools To Protect Youth From Sextortion and Other Forms of Intimate Image Abuse on Their Platforms.
In addition, the tech giant is planning to launch a new feature designed to help protect teens from seeing unwanted and potentially inappropriate images in their messages from people they’re already connected to, and to discourage them from sending these types of images themselves. Meta Announces ‘Stricter Private Messaging Setting for Teens’ on Instagram and Facebook, Aims To Protect Teens From Unwanted Contact.
Moreover, the tech giant stated that it will start hiding results related to suicide, self-harm and eating disorder when people search for these terms and will direct them to expert resources for help. Meta Teen Safety: Company To Hide Age-Inappropriate Content for Teens on Instagram and Facebook.