Meta has expanded the global deployment of its artificial intelligence technology to identify teenagers who misrepresent their ages on its platforms and automatically place them under additional safety protections.
The technology is designed to detect users suspected of being teenagers, even when they register with adult dates of birth, as the social media company seeks to extend age-appropriate safeguards to millions more young people worldwide.
The company said in an email on Monday that the expansion would initially increase the number of teenagers receiving built-in protections on Instagram, with similar technology being rolled out on Facebook and later on Threads.
The parent company of Facebook said the move was designed to tackle cases of teenagers falsifying their dates of birth to gain access to online content and services meant for adults.
It explained that ensuring young users received appropriate protections depended on accurately determining their ages, a challenge it described as an industry-wide concern.
