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Instagram Uses AI to Block Age-Falsifying Teen Accounts

Akinola Ajibola by Akinola Ajibola
April 21, 2025
in Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
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Your teen’s days of circumventing age restrictions may be coming to an end if they use a fictitious birthday on their Instagram page.

The social media company said on Monday that Meta is using AI technology to look for children who are inflating their age on Instagram to get around security measures and immediately transfer such accounts to one of the restricted number of juvenile accounts that were made available last autumn. Even if an account has an adult birth date listed, Meta will nevertheless enrol the user in a limited Teen Account if it detects the account is that of a teen.

Meta gave a number of instances. It will first keep track of the profiles and material that an account engages with. If a non-teen account engages in a lot of interaction with adolescent accounts and teen-related content, Meta may alert that account since individuals in the same age range typically love comparable content and communicate with one another.

Second, if someone else writes something like “Screaming happy 15th birthday to my best friend,” Meta will examine what it refers to as “strong signals of age,” which include birthday greetings.

Although the business has long employed AI to calculate age, the way it applies that data is novel.

For additional investigation, Meta will leave an internal note on these flagged accounts.

Last year, Instagram introduced Teen Accounts, which enrols teenage users in an app experience with integrated security features. Teens are automatically protected by the protections, which also restrict the kind of information that the account user may read and who can contact them on the app. Teens under 16 cannot alter any of these options without their parents’ consent.

Instagram has long used artificial intelligence (AI) to assess age, but the social media platform now says it’s now utilizing the technology to make sure teenagers are using a teen account rather than an adult one.

Last year, the business informed TechCrunch that it had intended to do this, adding that it would utilize reports from other users and the detection of happy birthday posts to identify accounts belonging to teenagers who submitted a fictitious adult birthday.

Instagram claims to be taking measures to guarantee the accuracy of its technology and the proper placement of teenagers in Teen Accounts. Nonetheless, the corporation is providing users with the ability to modify their settings in the event that it makes a mistake.

“We must adapt to the ever-changing digital landscape,” the business stated in its web page post. In order to ensure that as many teenagers as possible have access to the safety settings that come with Teen Accounts, it is crucial that we collaborate with parents.

Additionally, Instagram declared that it would start informing parents via alerts on how to have a conversation with their teenagers about the significance of providing the appropriate age online. According to the company, verifying that their account accurately reflects their birthday is one of the most crucial ways parents can ensure their teenagers are in protected accounts.

The statement was made today, two weeks after Meta added Teen Accounts to Messenger and Facebook.

Meta says it has registered at least 54 million kids in the Teenage bracket into Teen Accounts globally so far, and that 97% of teens aged 13-15 have remained in these secured accounts.

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