{"id":995147,"date":"2026-02-27T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995147"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:33:18","slug":"instagram-to-notify-parents-if-teens-repeatedly-search-for-suicide-related-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/instagram-to-notify-parents-if-teens-repeatedly-search-for-suicide-related-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram to notify parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide-related terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram&#8217;s parental supervision program. <\/p>\n<p>Instagram says it already blocks such content from showing up in teen accounts&#8217; search results and directs people to helplines instead. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as Meta is in the midst of two trials over harms to children. A trial underway in Los Angeles questions whether Meta&#8217;s platforms deliberately addict and harm minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram&#8217;s parental supervision program. Instagram says it already blocks such content from showing up in teen accounts&#8217; search results and directs people to helplines instead. The announcement comes as Meta is in the midst of two trials over harms to children. A trial underway in Los Angeles questions whether Meta&#8217;s platforms deliberately addict and harm minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}