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Sweeping Change: Instagram Moves Teens Into Private Accounts 'Guided By Parents' Sweeping Change: Instagram Moves Teens Into Private Accounts 'Guided By Parents'
Sweeping Change: Instagram Moves Teens Into Private Accounts 'Guided By Parents' Millions of teenage Instagram users are being forced into private accounts with enhanced security features aimed at limiting their exposure to harmful content. Meta, the social media platform’s parent company, unveiled its “Teen Accounts” feature on Tuesday, Sept. 17, automatically placing anyone under the age of 18 into a default private account. Teens with a private account must accept new followers and people who don’t follow them can’t see their contact or interact with them. It also comes with strict messaging settings, making it so they can only receive messages from people they foll…
'The Money Is Ready': Phone Scammer Steals Over $6K From CT Victim, Police Say 'The Money Is Ready': Phone Scammer Steals Over $6K From CT Victim, Police Say
'The Money Is Ready': Phone Scammer Steals Over $6K From CT Victim, Police Say An elaborate phone scam duped a Connecticut victim into forking over more than $6,000 and almost cost them thousands more, police said. Waldy Santiago, age 25, of Providence, Rhode Island, turned himself in at a State Police facility in Westbrook in Middlesex County on Wednesday, Oct. 25, in connection with the alleged scheme, according to Connecticut State Police. Investigators were initially contacted by a Middlesex County resident in Killingworth on Friday, Aug. 25, reporting an elderly scam. The 80-year-old victim told detectives that a man identifying himself as their grandson, who wa…
Facebook, Instagram Go Down For Users Throughout World Facebook, Instagram Go Down For Users Throughout World
Facebook, Instagram Go Down For Users Throughout World This story has been updated. Some of the most used social media sites and apps around the world were down for around six hours. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger all went down just before noontime Monday, Oct. 4. All four platforms are owned by Facebook and have a combined three billion users. The issues with the platforms were first reported around 11:45 a.m. Monday and they were back up just before 6 p.m. Facebook's only comment on the outage so far came in a Tweet posted at 12:10 p.m. by one of its senior communications executives, Andy M. Stone, who said, "We’re a…