Protecting Kids Online: Instagram and Reforms for Young Users

QuestionAsks Meta to confirm and quantify its ability to predict user age from behavioral signals, and to state how many under-13 users it estimates are on its platforms.

ResponseMeta confirms it can estimate age from behavioral signals (birthday messages, friends' ages) but declines to give a precision figure or an estimated under-13 population count, instead citing 4.8M/1.7M accounts removed for failing the minimum-age requirement in the last two quarters of 2021.