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Meta is expanding its teen safety alerts to parents who use its supervision tools, adding Facebook and conversations with Meta AI on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger to alerts already available for Instagram searches. Parents may be notified when a teen repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm terms within a short period or has an AI conversation suggesting risk; alerts can arrive by email, text, WhatsApp or an in-app notification, depending on available contact information. The alerts do not disclose specific searches or chat contents, but direct parents to speak with their teen and offer resources for support; Meta has not publicly specified the precise trigger criteria.

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