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Meta is expanding Instagram’s AI-powered checks for accounts that may belong to teenagers who entered an adult birthday, Livemint reports. If an account is identified as belonging to a teen, Instagram may apply Teen Account protections, which limit who can contact young users and what content they can see.

Meta has not disclosed all the account signals its system uses, according to the report. Similar AI-based checks are also being rolled out on Facebook, with comparable measures planned for Threads later this year. The practical change is wider reach for age-based safeguards, but the undisclosed signals leave a fair question about how the system decides. Should platforms explain more about those checks, even if that makes them easier to evade?

Discuss: Should platforms explain more about their AI age checks, even if that makes them easier to evade?

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