Snapchat adds new parental controls that block ‘sensitive’ and ‘suggestive’ content from viewing by teens

Snapchat adds new parental controls that block 'sensitive' and 'suggestive' content from viewing by teens

Mar 15, 2023 by Sarah Perez – TechCrunch

Key Facts

  • Today, the company announced through a post on its online Privacy and Safety Hub it will now add content filtering capabilities that will allow parents to restrict teens from being exposed to content identified as sensitive or suggestive.
  • Accompanying this change, Snapchat is also publishing its content guidelines for the first time to give creators on Stories and Spotlight more insights into what kind of posts may be recommended on its platform and what content will now be considered “sensitive” under its community guidelines.
  • The platform said that it had shared these guidelines with a set of creators under the Snap Stars program and with its media partners, but now the company is making them available to everyone through a page on its website.
  • For example, under the sexual content category, Snap explains that content will be considered “sensitive” if it includes “all nudity, as well as all depictions of sexual activity, even if clothed, and even if the imagery is not real” (such as in the case of AI images, as well as “explicit language” describing sex acts and other things related to sex, like sex work, taboos, genitalia, sex toy, “overtly suggestive imagery,” “insensitive or demeaning sexual content” and “manipulated media.”

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