{"id":209897,"date":"2026-05-06T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/meta-to-use-artificial-intelligence-to-verify-and-deactivate-underage-accounts-across-its-social-platforms\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:35:13","slug":"meta-to-use-artificial-intelligence-to-verify-and-deactivate-underage-accounts-across-its-social-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/meta-to-use-artificial-intelligence-to-verify-and-deactivate-underage-accounts-across-its-social-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to use artificial intelligence to verify and deactivate underage accounts across its social platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/meta-use-artificial-intelligence-verify-deactivate-underage-accounts-social-platforms\/19052864\/\">Meta to use artificial intelligence to verify and deactivate underage accounts across its social platforms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/meta-use-artificial-intelligence-verify-deactivate-underage-accounts-social-platforms\/19052864\/\">https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/meta-use-artificial-intelligence-verify-deactivate-underage-accounts-social-platforms\/19052864\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 18:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abc7news.com\">abc7news.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Age Verification Tool<\/strong>: Meta plans to implement an AI tool to verify the age of users on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Photo and Video Analysis<\/strong>: The AI will scan photos and videos to identify and remove users younger than 13 years old.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Text and Interaction Examination<\/strong>: Besides visual content, the tool will analyze text and interactions, such as posts about birthdays or school grades.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Non-Facial Recognition<\/strong>: Meta emphasizes that it will not use facial recognition; instead, the technology will focus on non-facial characteristics like height and bone structure to estimate age.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Account Deactivation<\/strong>: The AI\u2019s goal is to deactivate accounts that should not be active given the platform\u2019s age restrictions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Broad Scope of Information<\/strong>: The analysis involves looking at a comprehensive set of data from users\u2019 posts and comments to build a more accurate age profile.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta to use artificial intelligence to verify and deactivate underage accounts across its social platforms&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.abcotvs.com\/dip\/images\/19053365_050626-kgo-meta-age-verification-img.jpg?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209899,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209897\/revisions\/209899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}