"Overall we are quite vulnerable when it comes to age management on our apps. To some degree that is because leadership has decided to live with certain risks at least in the near term."

"Immediate Product Vulnerabilities - We lack a U13U13Under-13Users below the minimum age of 13 set by Meta's terms of service and by COPPA. "U13" denotes both the age cohort and the underage accounts Meta's own documents discuss detecting, removing, or building products for.Full entry ↗ classifier, insufficient means to detect and remove ul3s at scale - We also have deprioritized U13 enforcement because COPPA compliance is at risk when we sit on knowledge of u13, incentivizes not knowing - Age prediction models are not that accurate, reducing the efficacy of classifiers like the grooming classifier and requiring more reliance on human review - Age prediction models are not globally operational; as a result, integrity measures that leverage age are inconsistent and unreliable, including child safety protections - Age prediction models are not globally resilient, they tend to perform better in Western markets and worse in emerging markets - Age models do not work as well on IG; as a result, we have no ability to more granularly gate minors out from age-related experiences on Instagram - As a result of all of the above, are age-gating doesn't work as well as it should yet we offer age-gated products like Watch Together, FB Dating,... and we have minors who appear as young as 12 years old. - Lack of u18 checkpoint: Risk having u18 users on 18+ products like FB Dating, Marketplace, Mentorship, or as under-age parents on Messenger Kids - Age verification: We remain reactive on age verification, pushing for a device side solution, when we're getting increasing policymaker pressure to be proactive while our competitors improve their approaches" "Overall we are quite vulnerable when it comes to age management on our apps. To some degree that is because leadership has decided to live with certain risks at least in the near term. For example in March, we decided we would not build a classifier to detect minors under 13 years old. Identity Integrity identified a PM who will own age verification but we will only prioritize this work when we face clear legal obligations to do so." "Identity Integrity did agree to enable cross-enforcement of ul3s on IG who have hard-linked FB accounts since basic COPPA compliance is at risk when product does not prioritize checkpointing and disabling u13s, There is a chance, however, that this fails to get resourced because of engineering constraints on that team." "Age models do not work as well on IG because 1G only started to collect age data in December 2019, In addition, Adam Mosseri will not support upselling age collection for existing users because he sees it as intrusive data collection."