
Michael
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随着社交媒体对青少年心理健康的影响日益引发关注,Instagram宣布对其青年安全策略进行重大调整。Meta公司表示,将通过新的 “青少年账户” 计划,给予家长更多对青少年在线活动的监督权限,以缓解批评者对其服务损害青少年福祉的担忧。然而,一些专家认为青少年可能会找到规避新标准的方法,且部分安全问题仍未得到解决。此外,Meta公司长期以来在推广家长控制工具方面进展艰难,此次调整也是为应对各方对社交媒体导致青少年心理健康危机的指责,以及相关立法的压力。Instagram的改变是否能有效保护青少年安全,仍有待观察。

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Instagram’s latest child safety effort: ‘Teen accounts’
Instagram最新的儿童安全举措:“青少年账户”
Instagram is revamping its youth safety strategy by giving parents more oversight over what their teenagers are doing online, Meta said Tuesday, as the social media giant seeks to assuage critics who say its services compromise adolescents’ well-being.
社交媒体巨头Meta周二表示,Instagram正在改进其青少年安全策略,让父母更多地监督他们的孩子在网上做什么,这家社交媒体巨头试图平息批评者们提出的批评,批评者认为Instagram的服务损害了青少年的健康。
Meta, which owns Instagram, said it would bolster efforts to limit the time teenagers spend on the social networking site, what content they see and which strangers are able find their accounts and talk to them. The new safety measures — introduced by Meta as part of a new “teen accounts” program — will also give parents more insight into the people their children are talking to and the types of posts they are consuming, while still offering the ability to set limits on their accounts.
Instagram的母公司Meta表示,它将加大力度,限制青少年在社交网站上花费的时间,同时限制他们看到的内容,以及哪些陌生人能够找到他们的账户并与之交谈。Meta公司推出了新的安全措施,作为新的“青少年账户”项目的一部分,这些安全措施将让父母更深入地了解他们的孩子正在与哪些人交谈,以及他们正在浏览的帖子类型,同时还提供了对他们的账户设置限制的能力。
“We are changing the experience for millions of teens on our app,” Antigone Davis, Meta’s global head of safety, said in an interview. “We’re reimagining that parent-child relationship online in response to what we heard from parents about how they parent, or want to be able to parent.” The new rules won’t immediately apply to Meta’s original social network, Facebook, which is larger than Instagram but less popular among American teenagers. Meta, which also owns WhatsApp, said it would put other apps under similar new rules in the coming months. Meta’s new default protections for teens are meant to help address long-standing allegations that the design of Instagram intentionally keep teens addicted to its services while hurting their well-being.
“我们正在改变数百万青少年使用我们应用的体验,”Meta的全球安全主管安提戈涅·戴维斯(Antigone Davis)在接受采访时说。“我们从父母那里听取了他们如何养育孩子,或者希望能够养育孩子的想法,我们正重新想象线上的亲子关系。”新规定不会立即适用于Meta最初的社交网络Facebook,Facebook比Instagram更大,但Facebook在美国青少年中却不那么受欢迎。WhatsApp的母公司Meta表示,未来几个月将把其他应用置于类似的新规则之下。Meta针对青少年的新默认保护旨在帮助解决长期以来的指控,即Instagram的设计故意让青少年沉迷于其服务,同时损害他们的健康。
今日单词
child safety 儿童安全;
effort /ˈefərt/ n. 努力;
account/əˈkaʊnt/ n. 账户,户头;客户,老主顾;网络账号;描述,报道;
revamp/ˈriːvæmp/ vt. 改造;
safety strategy 安全策略;
oversight /ˈoʊvərsaɪt/ n. 监督;
assuage /əˈsweɪdʒ/ vt. 缓解;
compromise /ˈkɑːmprəmaɪz/ vt. 妥协;
adolescent /ˌædəˈles(ə)nt/ n. 青少年;
well-being/ˈwel biːɪŋ/ n. 福祉;
bolster /ˈboʊlstər/ vt. 增强;
social networking site 社交网络网站;
stranger /ˈstreɪndʒər/ n. 陌生人;
program /ˈproʊɡræm/ n.(计算机)程序(=programme);计划,规划;(音乐会、戏剧等演出的)节目单,(体育运动、比赛等的)项目介绍;
insight /ˈɪnsaɪt/ n. 洞察力;
post /poʊst/ n. 帖子,在线留言板上的信息;
consume /kənˈsuːm/ vt. 消耗;消费;浏览;
global head of safety 全球安全主管;
reimagine /riːɪˈmædʒɪn/ vt. 重新想象;
immediately /ɪˈmiːdiətli/ adv. 立即,马上;紧接地,紧靠地;直接地;
original /əˈrɪdʒən(ə)l/ adj. 起初的,原先的;原作的,真迹的;
default /dɪˈfɔːltˌˈdiːfɔːlt/ adj. 默认的;
address /əˈdres/ vt. 处理,设法解决;
long-standing/ˌlɔːŋ ˈstændɪŋ/ adj. 长期存在的;存在已久的;
allegation /ˌæləˈɡeɪʃn/ n. 指控;
intentionally /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəli/ adv. 故意地,有意地;
addict to 对…上瘾;
素材来源
文本选自:The Washington Post(华盛顿邮报)
每日美句
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
“成功不是终点,失败也不是致命的:真正重要的是继续前进的勇气。”——温斯顿·丘吉尔
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