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Meta's pre-teen profile on Insta: How an AI will scan images of birthday cakes and bone structure to remove users under 13 years of age

20 May 2026, 08:26 GMT
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Instagram and Facebook have a problem with underage users — there's too many of them. Parent company, Meta, aims to root out under-13s with an age-profiling AI. This plays into a debate about a teenage social media ban.