Meta’s head of global safety said “sextortion” has become more common across social media platforms, including Instagram.

Meta said Thursday Instagram is launching a new campaign to help teens and their parents avoid sextortion and fight the financially-driven scammers who prey on teens and children.

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 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.