Meta’s attempt to make Instagram safer for teenagers has earned it an unexpected Hollywood-style reprimand. The Motion Picture Association (MPA), the powerful trade body behind film ratings like PG and R, has sent Meta a formal cease-and-desist notice accusing it of misleadingly borrowing its famous PG-13 classification to promote Instagram’s new teen safety features.
The MPA was far from amused to see the world’s biggest social media company framing its “Teen Accounts” as being “guided by PG-13 movie ratings.” In a sternly worded letter sent to Meta’s chief legal officer, Jennifer Newstead, on October 28, the MPA called the move “literally false and highly misle
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