A post by @FirstSquawk on X.

Meta expanded its AI-powered age-detection system for teens to Instagram globally, extending a tool that identifies users who may have misstated their age and routes them into stricter teen account settings. The rollout broadens a policy Meta has been testing in select markets, applying it to Instagram’s roughly 3 billion monthly users and shifting more underage accounts into default protections such as private profiles and restricted messaging. The move matters because regulators in the US, UK and EU are pressing platforms to verify minors’ ages without forcing everyone to submit ID, and Meta is betting on behavioral AI inference instead. Watch for error rates and appeals from users misclassified as teens, plus whether Meta extends the same detection to Facebook and how rivals respond.