Meta's Messenger parental supervision tools now available
Antigone Davis: "We’re committed to making sure teens have age-appropriate experiences across our technologies"
Meta has announced parental supervision tools are now available on the Messenger app.
The first set of parental supervision tools on Messenger will allow parents and guardians to get updates on changes to their teen’s Messenger contact list, as well as their teen’s privacy and safety settings.
Parents can also get notified if their teen reports someone (if the teen chooses to share that information), view who can message their teen (only their friends, friends of friends, or no one) and if their teen changes this setting, and also who can see their teen’s Messenger stories.
Meta made the announcement at their recent Youth Safety Summit in Singapore, held from 29 to 30 August. The event brought together safety experts from across the Asia Pacific, including BRAC, ECPAT International, Netsafe, UNICEF, and the Stairway Foundation and Australian partners, Butterfly, Project Rockit, Save The Children & ReachOut.
Antigone Davis, Meta’s global head of safety, at the sidelines of the Youth Safety Summit in Singapore, said: "Over the years, we’ve developed more than 30 tools to support families, including supervision tools that help parents and teens work together to manage teens’ time on our apps. "We’re committed to making sure teens have age-appropriate experiences across our technologies, and we’ll continue working with safety experts as we build tools for young people and their families," Davis added.
These supervision tools are in addition to other features and protections that Meta has launched over the years, including tools that help teens have safer and more private experiences, further restricting the options advertisers have to reach teens as well as the information that used to show ads to teens, and providing teens with more tools to better manage their experience on Instagram.
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