Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

QuestionCiting reports that Meta directs moderators to use the "Tanner scale" (a puberty-staging tool, not an age-verification tool) and to "err on the side of an adult" for ambiguous-age content, Portman asks Meta to commit, yes or no, to halting both practices.

ResponseMeta does not answer yes or no. It defends continued use of the Tanner scale as "only one indicator" among several, cites the Stored Communications Act as a legal reason it cannot report content without a "good faith belief" the subject is a minor, and says it has developed unspecified "new internal aging guidelines" without committing to end either practice.