Teens on Instagram continue to face safety issues on the platform, according to new research, despite enhanced protections for young users rolled out more than a year ago.

A new report shared exclusively with TIME suggests the safeguards that Instagram’s parent company Meta rolled out last year have failed to stem safety issues for teens. In the study from child advocacy groups ParentsTogether Action, the HEAT Initiative, and Design It for Us, which Meta disputed as biased, nearly 60% of teens aged 13 to 15 reported encountering unsafe content and unwanted messages on Instagram during the last six months. Nearly 60% of the kids who received unwanted messages said they came from users they believe to be adults. And nearly 40% of kids who got unwanted messages said they came from someone w

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