New feature offers protections for young people and oversight for parents [Video]

Instagram will introduce new Teen Accounts for under-16s starting today, offering new protections for young people and greater oversight for parents.

The feature, which will see all teens in Australia moved onto these new accounts within 60 days, comes fresh off the back of the federal government’s plan to implement a new minimum age for social media.

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said in a media conference that the two announcements are not connected.

Instagram’s Teen Accounts come with built-in “protections” to help young users avoid potentially harmful or inappropriate content and allow parents to monitor how their children use the platform.

“We’ve tried wherever possible to find the overlap between what parents want and what teens want,” Mosseri said in a media conference.

“I’m sure there will some be some parents who think that we aren’t going …