By Martyn Landi, PA Technology Correspondent & Lawrence Matheson Meta, the social media giant that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced a number of new safety measures aimed at protecting users, particularly youngsters, from “sextortion” and intimate image abuse. The company confirmed it will start testing a nudity filter in Direct Messages (DMs) on Instagram. This feature, dubbed Nudity Protection, will be automatically enabled for those under 18 and will blur images detected as containing nudity, shielding users from unsolicited nudity in their DMs. Users receiving such image…