Meta agrees to ‘reduce’ Instagram’s PG-13 rating references
Meta agrees to 'reduce' Instagram's PG-13 rating references
Meta has reached an agreement with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) that will require the platform to “substantially reduce” its reference to the PG-13 rating when describing Instagram’s teen accounts. In a press release on Tuesday, a Meta spokesperson says its 13+ content guidelines aren’t changing, but it has “taken the MPA’s feedback on how we talk about that work” into account.
The agreement comes just months after the MPA sent Meta a cease-and-desist order over its use of the PG-13 rating. At the time, Meta compared its new teen restrictions on posts containing nudity, sexual content, or suggestive poses to what you might see in a …