████: "in the past, the only requirement for age-gating on IG was by advertisers, around brand safety… That's why the relevant infra and code are owned by the IG Ads team ('IG4B') as opposed to Well-being. We never used that infra for Integrity. I don't even know how reliable it is… Not opposed to enhancing it, just sharing that it was never designed or used for Integrity purposes in the past."
████: "It sounds like some folx just assumed age-gating would work for Integrity, when it was never planned to."
████: "It wasn't a 'gap' until now because nothing depended on it or tried to use eit (outside the well-known Ads use-cases)."
████: "This has been part of policy for years (pre CI taking on IG directly, even), so the better question may be why IGWB never built this"
████: "This is literally the first time I hear about this infra being used for Integrity purposes, even in theory, since I've worked in the domain (2018)."
████: "IGWB handed this off to Ads years ago because we weren't using it at all, much less building it"
████: "The gap is external community standards pages mentioning we age gate but not implemented in IG product."
████: "There's a bunch of work, spurred on by the Youth work, that is helping to improve coverage, but we didn't even ask any IG users for age until a few months ago."
████: "I think Adam knows what this infra is used for, or not. A heads-up to Adam is OK… but it won't be news to him"
Meta & Children's Online Safety