Meta Announces New Safety Feature for Teens, Removes 635,000 Accounts

Children are found to increasingly use the safety features for blocking and reporting accounts.

Technology company Meta Platforms at a booth during the AI+Expo Special Competitive Studies Project in Washington on June 2, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is launching a host of safety features aimed at protecting young people from both “direct and indirect harm,” the company said in a July 23 statement.

“Teen Accounts will now have new safety features in DMs, giving teens more information about who they’re chatting with,” the statement said, noting that teenagers will be provided “more context” about the account they’re chatting with in order to spot scammers.