Meta will tell parents when their teens add new interests to their Instagram algorithm

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Starting Tuesday, parents can get more details about what their teens are up to on Instagram. Meta is adding a feature to its Teen Accounts that shows parents the “general topics their teens engage with,” like “basketball” or “fashion. ” Meta also says it will soon start notifying parents when their teen adds a new interest to their algorithm.

In December, Meta announced its “Your Algorithm” feature, which lets users choose topics they want to see more or less of in Instagram. Meta noted in its Tuesday blog post that users with Teen Accounts are already limited in what topics they can add to their algorithm — content shown to users with teen accounts is supposed to be similar to content in a PG-13 movie. RelatedFacebook and Instagram are using AI bone structure analysis to identify photos of kidsMeta also announced on Tuesday that it’s “consolidating” the parental controls for Instagram, Meta Horizon, Facebook, and Messenger into a single hub in Family Center.

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Parents can now also “send a single invitation to supervise their teen” across all of these apps. Meta says Family Center will get more supervision tools in the coming months, such as “aggregated time spent” by their teens in Meta’s apps. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.

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This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.