(The Hill) – A new report from a Meta whistleblower and university researchers found that many of Instagram’s teen safety features, introduced over the years in the face of congressional and public pressure, fall short of their aims and fail to protect younger users.

Nearly two-thirds of the social media platform’s safety features were deemed ineffective or were no longer available, according to the report from former Facebook engineering director Arturo Béjar and Cybersecurity for Democracy, a research project from New York University and Northeastern University.

“Meta’s new safety measures are woefully ineffective,” Ian Russell and Maurine Molak, who lost children following cyberbullying and exposure to depression and suicide-related content on Instagram, wrote in a foreword to the rep

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