Instagram will test new settings to protect people from malicious actors who use the messaging (DM) service to share or request intimate photos. Instagram will prevent potentially suspicious accounts from sending a message to a boy or girl through their profile, even if they are already connected.
Instagram is also looking into hiding girls and teenagers from these accounts in the following, followed and likes lists, as well as making it harder for them to find accounts of teenage boys and girls in search results. Meta is also testing new pop-up alerts, which are aimed at people who may have interacted with an account that has been removed for sexual extortion. The message direct people to support such as StopNC for adults and Take It Down for minors. These two platforms allow victims of the distribution of intimate photos or videos to mark and remove them proactively, so that they cannot be distributed on the Internet and they will be blocked from the technological platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. That's how it will work on Instagram. The new definitions will begin as an experiment and will gradually expand globally.