Instagram will stop people from being able to screenshot or screen-record images and videos intended to be viewed once, as part of "ongoing efforts" to prevent sextortion on the platform.Its parent company Meta announced features on Thursday aimed at protecting teens from being tricked into sending intimate images to scammers and blackmailed over them.

Scammers are targeting teens by getting hold of their intimate photos. Instagram added some features to combat it.

Meta is continuing its flurry of teen safety features for Instagram as the company faces mounting questions about its handling of younger users’ privacy and safety in its apps. The latest batch of updates are meant to tighten its protections against sextortion.

Instagram is introducing a series of new safety features to protect users from sextortion scammers, the company announced on Thursday. Most notably, the company is no longer going to allow people to screenshot or screen record ephemeral images or videos sent in private messages.

Sextortion has been linked to international criminal groups operating at scale and with speed. Some teen victims have died by suicide after being blackmailed. The Instagram campai

Instagram launches new safety features to fight sextortion scams - The social media platform said it is using expert guidance to train technology to spot scam accounts and prevent them from contacting teenage users.

Instagram has introduced a series of new safety features to prevent sextortion schemes, marking the platform’s latest effort to protect users, especially teenagers, from online harm. The safety changes are part of a broader campaign by Instagram designed to help teenagers and parents more easily spot sextortion scams,