Meta expands AI-based automatic detection of under-13 users on Instagram and Facebook

Meta is expanding AI-based age detection on Instagram and Facebook to identify accounts likely used by children under 13.

The system analyzes posts, profiles, images, and videos, while existing age-verification methods remain in place.

Coverage is being extended beyond the U.S. to all 27 EU countries and Brazil, with parent notifications included.

The move could improve teen protections, but it also raises privacy, false-positive, and broader age-verification policy questions.