As reported by Android Central, Instagram’s updated user detection process will automatically limit interactions with certain accounts when it determines that the user is under 18, even if the user tries to lie about their age by listing an adult birth date. It’s the latest deployment of Meta’s advancing age detection systems, which utilize various factors to determine user age, including who follows you, who you follow, what content you interact with, and more. But Meta says that its system is improving, and learning more about the key considerations that are likely to indicate user age via platform usage. This is an important focus for the app, as more and more regions look to implement new restrictions on social media usage to protect young users. Unless agreement can be reached on an agreed standard approach, which is why Meta’s use of AI age verification could eventually establish a new industry threshold for such.