Instagram's new tools educate users on the risks of sharing sensitive images and provide support if teens are blackmailed or harassed by scammers.

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

Previously tested tools that blur nude images in messages, and hiding the follower and following lists of users from potential sextortion accounts, will also be made permanent. It comes as the UK's communications watchdog Ofcom warns that social media companies will face fines if they fail to keep children safe.

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.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, launched new protections aimed at protecting teens from sextortion on Instagram. NBC News Savannah Seller reports.

Instagram is sending a video to millions of teenagers to warn them about sextortion, a cybercrime that has proliferated on the app and in some cases has driven young users to suicide.

Instagram will no longer allow people to take screenshots or screen recordings of ephemeral images or videos sent in direct messages. It's one of the service's latest safety guardrails meant to help protect teens against financial sextortion.