Instagram Gets Reel with Teen Safety
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at new measures that aim to protect teens on Instagram.
Social media company, Meta, have announced "built-in protections" to teen accounts as well as greater controls for parents. But will it work? James is joined by the BBC’s technology editor Zoe Kleinman plus disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring.
And Munira Wilson, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham, joins James from the final day of the Liberal Democrats party conference, where Election Success, the NHS, and… Brexit have all been on the agenda.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, it's James in Glasgow, and for Adam today, |
| 0:07.3 | and I know Adam is still short in his quest |
| 0:09.6 | to complete newscast of thousands |
| 0:12.0 | in time for the 1500th show which is later this week. |
| 0:15.0 | So I thought we could add a number from one of the stories that we're going to look at on today's episode and that will involve a quiz. How many times do you think Ed |
| 0:25.2 | Davy had to stop his speech today at the Libdom conference for applause? |
| 0:29.6 | That is the question, have a guess, I'll give you the answer at the end, just to give you a reference point he spoke, if you were not paying attention, for around 50 minutes. |
| 0:39.0 | But first, we're going to be talking about some potentially quite big changes to Instagram which they say are |
| 0:44.1 | going to help protect young people. |
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| 1:06.5 | Blimey. |
| 1:07.5 | So around 1 o'clock this afternoon, we had some breaking news that Instagram is changing the way it works for |
| 1:14.7 | teenagers what is happening is to go to launch something called teen accounts for |
| 1:19.3 | children age 13 to 15 and the aim is to make it safer for young people to use the app and |
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