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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)

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Questioner: Josh Hawley

Initiative: U13 Classifiers/Age-Verification
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Josh Hawley

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QuestionHow does Meta verify and enforce the minimum age (13) requirement on Facebook/Instagram?

ResponseMeta walks through its full underage-detection pipeline: user reports, automated triage, manual reviewer criteria (bio/photos), age-checkpoint blocking screens, permanent removal for confirmed under-13s, and its third-party age-verification partnership with Yoti.