Instagram Rolls Out New Safety Tools to Combat Rising Sextortion Cases Targeting Teens

• Instagram deploying new tools to fight sexual extortion and protect teens, including automatically blurring nudity in direct messages • Recent rise in sextortion cases where criminals extort teens by threatening to release explicit images • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to parents of victims during recent Senate hearing • New DM feature will blur nudity and encourage users to pause before sending nude photos • Instagram working on technology to identify potential sextortion accounts and limit their access to teens