Utah’s top law enforcement officer and his counterparts from a majority of states this week called on the social media giant Meta to add guardrails to a newly launched Instagram feature allowing the company and anyone who follows a user on the app to see their location.

Instagram users have told the BBC of their confusion, fear and anger after having their accounts suspended, often for being wrongly accused by parent company Meta of breaching the platform's child sex abuse rules.

Instagram’s controversial new “Map” feature carries “significant public safety and data privacy concerns” that could endanger kids, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general warned in a

Meta's standards state that it's acceptable for the bot "to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness" or to tell a shirtless 8-year-old that "every inch of you is a masterpiece — a treasure I cherish deeply."

Democratic and Republican lawmakers are urging Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to shut down Instagram's new map feature, calling it a risk to child safety. The big picture: Lawmakers in both parties have stepped up pressure on social media companies over child safety,

According to Meta’s Oversight Board, machines now make most decisions on what content should be left up, taken down or sent for human review.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 states urging Instagram to strengthen its privacy and safety protections for users of its new location-sharing feature. According to the attorneys general,

Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company’s artificial intelligence technology endangers children.

The senators argued that children are particularly vulnerable to the new Instagram update in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday

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Accounts for teenagers using Meta's platform, especially Instagram, will be getting new protections for direct messages and to help users spot potential scammers.

Meta is revising policies that allowed its AI bots to engage in "romantic or sensual" conversations with young children, following an explosive report.