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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Monday, November 9, 2026 at 8:12 AM AST·1 min read

Meta Expands Teen Account Protections Globally

Meta Newsroom is expanding its AI age-estimation technology globally to place millions more teens in Teen Account protections on Instagram.

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Meta Newsroom is expanding its AI age-estimation technology globally to place millions more teens in Teen Account protections on Instagram.

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Meta Newsroom announced it is expanding its AI age-estimation technology globally to place millions more teens in Teen Account protections on Instagram. Teen Accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger provide built-in protections that automatically limit who can contact teens, the content they see, and their time on the apps.

The company uses AI technology to find people suspected to be teens even if they use an adult birthday and place them in these protections. Meta Newsroom said this expansion means millions more teens across the world who use Instagram will receive the protections even if they have misrepresented their age.

Meta Newsroom is continuing to roll out the technology on Facebook and will begin launching similar technology globally on Threads later this year. This builds on commitments under its recent agreement with 52 bipartisan attorneys general to strengthen identification of teens and children under 13.
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Parents in the United States will begin to see an in-feed video on Instagram explaining the approach. In Australia, Meta has begun using Apple’s age-range signal as another method to help understand age. Meta Newsroom is calling on industry peers TikTok and YouTube to adopt similar practices.
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