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Meta to Use AI to Verify and Deactivate Underage Accounts: Here's How It Works

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Menlo Park-based Meta will use AI to verify age on its platforms. We spoke with Meta's head of North American Safety about how it works.

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, is incorporating advanced visual analysis techniques to ensure that users of their platforms are at least 13 years old. As part of this effort, a technology has been included that uses artificial intelligence systems (AI) to examine photos and videos of users “in search of visual clues about the age” of people. Among those “tracks” is the analysis of the bone structure or height of the…

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In the search for minors, Meta wants to comprehensively examine users on Facebook and Instagram. The company even wants to evaluate the bone structure of people on photos. How dangerous is this? The analysis. Meta sends an "AI" to the search for young-acting bodies (symbol image) – All rights reserved: IMAGO / Zoonar; Editing: netzpolitik.orgInstagram and Facebook want to examine their users even more closely in the future. A software called AI …

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nieuwrechts.nl broke the news on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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