BONUS Episode: Our Interview with Meta.

De-Influenced with Dani + Jordan

Dani Austin

Society & Culture

4.4 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Surprise!! We have an extra episode for y'all this week! We were lucky enough to sit down with Meta's head of Global Safety, Antigone Davis, to talk about internet and social media safety including Instagram Teen Accounts, which was announced last fall. As parents let us just tell you this conversation was fascinating and so important to know what Meta is doing to help protect teens and empower parents when it comes to navigating the digital age! We hope y'all find this as insightful as we did!Instagram Teen Accounts —now expanded to Facebook and Messenger—are designed to give parents peace of mind that their teens are safer with the right protections in place. Learn more about Instagram Teen Accounts at ⁠https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-new-built-in-restrictions-instagram-teen-accounts-expanding-faceboo k-messenger/⁠. Support your family’s online experience with expert guidance and tools from Meta’s Family Center. Explore resources today, including Meta’s Screen Smart Program, at ⁠https://familycenter.meta.com⁠. Make sure you’re subscribed to our official channel on YouTube, @deinfluencedpodcast, and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your De-Influenced fix! Stay connected with us on Instagram and TikTok @deinfluencedpodcast, and as always thank you for being a part of this journey. we love y'all!! D+J Produced by Dear Media

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:12.1	Hello and welcome back to your favorite podcast, De-influenced.
0:17.7	Guys, we just had, we was just a wild ride around here.
0:21.4	Wild ride.
0:22.2	We had the cool guests.
0:23.5	We had the coolest guests with the coolest job and the coolest name.
0:28.0	Antigone.
0:28.8	So we had Antigone Davis on.
0:31.8	She is Mehta's Global Head of Safety.
0:35.3	And she was here to tell us all about Meta's teen accounts, which I didn't even know that was a thing because I obviously don't have a teenager yet. But I do have three small children that I know are going to want to get on the internet one day. I mean, Summits over here already trying to grab my phone, which kind of freaks me out a little bit. Yeah, we were raised on the streets of MySpace.
0:55.4	Yeah, the streets of MySpace.
0:56.5	And they were not cleaned up like Meadows. They were not. The top eight, it killed me. I still have nightmares about it. I wasn't on any. On any? No, I think I was on a couple. No, be honest. Were you not? I don't remember, but I...
0:51.5	But that's why I think we're so humble probably.
0:53.4	I don't think I was ever number one on anyone's, which is tough.
0:57.1	That's always hard. I wasn't either. Yeah. Were you not? No. You were class president, though. Yeah, but you know, like, I was liked by everybody, but like not loved. I get it. You know? Liked, but not known. I was like, yeah, like I was friends with everyone, but not best friends with anyone. Totally.
1:11.6	I hurt.
1:45.2	Gosh, we played our strategy so long. I know. I did. That's why I played it totally different in college. I was like, I'm just going to have five friends. Yeah. And then I kind of limited myself. So it's like, you know, it's a little of balance in life. Anyway, thank God. MySpace is gone. Thank goodness.
1:46.9	Well, just a little bit of information for our listeners about what these teen accounts are.
1:51.9	Meta has begun expanding teen accounts to Facebook and Messenger.
1:55.7	Teen accounts on Facebook and Messenger will offer similar automatic protections to address
2:00.2	unwanted contact, sensitive content,
2:03.0	and time spent. Meta actually started these teen accounts on Instagram in 2024. As they continue to
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