Meta will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for self-harm content

Meta is expanding parental notifications to Facebook: parents of supervised teens will get alerts via text, email, WhatsApp or push if their child repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm content in a short period. Similar alerts will fire when a teen's chats with Meta AI suggest a risk of self-harm.

• Alerts arrive via text, email, WhatsApp and in-app push
• Meta does not disclose the exact threshold for triggering alerts
• Notifications omit specific search terms and Meta AI chat contents
• The feature is part of Meta's parent-supervised teen accounts