{"id":1550,"date":"2025-05-20T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2025-06-15T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:00:52","slug":"instagram-teen-accounts-still-exposed-to-sexual-content-investigation-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/instagram-teen-accounts-still-exposed-to-sexual-content-investigation-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Teen Accounts still exposed to sexual content, investigation finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/instagram-teen-accounts-still-exposed-to-sexual-content-inve_nzey.640.jpg\">The app&#8217;s tighter controls are apparently not blocking explicit posts.<\/p>\n<p>Following years of criticism for its handling of the youth mental health crisis, <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> has invested heavily in beefing up its teen safety features, including an entirely <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/tech\/54573\/instagram-will-restrict-teens-from-going-live-as-teen-accounts-expand-to-facebook-and-messenger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new way for underage users to post<\/a>, communicate, and scroll on the app. But recent tests of these new \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The app&#8217;s tighter controls are apparently not blocking explicit posts. Following years of criticism for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}