"Currently on FB, when a user attempts to change their age to under 13, a checkbox to confirm the age is shown on www (not on mobile), an error is generated, and the action is logged in the table 'edit_birthday' (userid, new age, old age, and the error message are stored for 35 days). No enforcement action is taken. Checkpointing these users could result in ~126k/year in the US (~3.4M/year globally) MAP impact."

████: "Currently on FB, when a user attempts to change their age to under 13, a checkbox to confirm the age is shown on www (not on mobile), an error is generated, and the action is logged in the table 'edit_birthday' (userid, new age, old age, and the error message are stored for 35 days). No enforcement action is taken. Checkpointing these users could result in ~126k/year in the US (~3.4M/year globally) MAPMAPMonthly Active PeopleCore Meta engagement metric counting distinct people active on a platform in a month. Paired with DAP in internal goal-setting; the MAP/DAP ratio is used as a measure of how frequently a monthly user returns.Full entry ↗ impact." Andrew Bocking: "Why are we planning to limit to US in this proposal?" ████: "The highest legal risk is in the US given COPPA and FTC. The idea was to strike middle ground between mitigating legal risk asap and containing MAP impact." ████: "Checkbox launched globally to 95% on 11/26 – observed 30% drop in 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 ↗ DoB change attempts, which translates into 2.3-3M global annual MAP impact (vs ~3.2-4M earlier)... Working team's consensus is to: Launch checkpoint globally this week, pending remaining product/eng work and ops readiness (the capacity now is 2.6k/day, will need to go to 12-16k/day + likely 35 day backlog of 591K accounts)"