Meta hosts digital safety workshop in Atlanta

Just days after Georgia secured a nearly $135 million settlement over Meta's addictive features, the company was in Atlanta to host a digital safety workshop for parents. And Fox size Maria Guzman was there and has more on Meta's ScreenSmart series. Social media giant Meta hosted its first ScreenSmart workshop right here in Atlanta. It focused on addressing parents concerns on having their teens on the app and what features are in place to limit their use. I have a 14 year old. This is my first time entering teenage years with a child. And right now she doesn't have any social media, but I know she's longing to have at least Instagram. As a parent and content creator, what I've seen is more concerned with, I guess the like AI accounts, people becoming AI accounts, impersonating a teen or a child. Their top concerns are about unwanted contacts. So who may be in touch with their teens online, the content that they're seeing, making sure that it's right for the age that the teens are and how much time they're spending. Meta is the parent company of big social media names like Instagram and Facebook. And recently, the company was part of a $17.1 billion settlement over its impact on preteens and teens. We've come to an agreement. We're going to have some new restrictions put in place on our platform, some new defaults for teens that really build on our longstanding teen safety work. This will include a daily time limit of two hours per day across Facebook and Instagram for teens. We're going to have restrictions on overnight hours that we had a blocking overnight use for teens and school mode. So we're going to have restrictions on notifications during the school day. We're also going to be enhancing the technology that we use to find and remove those underage accounts that don't belong on our platforms and to find teens who need to be put into the teen account experiences. Meta leaders also say that the company is using AI to crack down on accounts that belong to children younger than 13 years old. In downtown Atlanta, Maria Guzman, Fox 5.