A couple of weeks ago, Meta announced that it was rolling out new protections for Teen Accounts on Instagram. As part of those protections, the platform said that new content filters would curate more age-appropriate feeds for young users. That curation would be “guided by PG-13 movie ratings,” the company said, in an effort to make them safer. Now, the Motion Picture Association—the progenitor of the official PG-13 standard—has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the social media giant, asking it to please not drag its respectable content benchmarks into whatever it is that Instagram is doing.

The Wall Street Journal broke the news about the MPA’s letter to Meta. From the looks of it, it would appear that the MPA doesn’t trust the social media platform to adequately apply the standards—a

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