Meta starts blocking teens in Australia under social media ban

Instagram alone reporting about 350,000 Australian users aged 13 to 15.

Compliance with the law will be an ongoing and multi-layered process.

With one law, we can protect Generation Alpha from being sucked into purgatory by the predatory algorithms.

An estimated 150,000 Facebook users and 350,000 Instagram accounts are expected to be affected.

Meta allows users under 16 in Australia to change their date of birth after clearing a ‘video selfie’ or providing government ID.

Meta will start removing access to users under 16 from 4 December due to Australia’s social media ban for children.

Instagram’s age verification identified a moustachioed adult as over 16.