Meta agrees to ‘reduce’ Instagram’s PG-13 rating references

Meta’s contented guidelines for teens are “inspired” by PG-13 movie ratings. | Image: Meta

Meta has reached an statement with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) that volition necessitate the level to "substantially reduce" its notation to the PG-13 standing erstwhile describing Instagram's teen accounts. In a property merchandise connected Tuesday, a Meta spokesperson says its 13+ contented guidelines aren't changing, but it has "taken the MPA's feedback connected however we speech astir that work" into account.

The statement comes conscionable months aft the MPA sent Meta a cease-and-desist bid implicit its usage of the PG-13 rating. At the time, Meta compared its caller teen restrictions connected posts containing nudity, intersexual content, oregon suggestive poses to what you mightiness spot successful a …

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