Protecting Kids Online: Instagram and Reforms for Young Users

QuestionAsks what concrete steps are being taken today on age verification for under-13s, and why parental controls took this long given Meta's prior experience with Messenger Kids.

ResponseMosseri explains the paused Instagram Kids' parental-controls work was repurposed for teens, describes classifier-based age prediction as imperfect, and frames age verification as an unsolved industry-wide problem rather than answering why Meta waited.