META explained its age verification process and safety features during the government's Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society.
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00:00Our focus on age insurance enables us to provide specific protections for those under the age of 18.
00:07These safeguards include defaulting new teen accounts to private,
00:12preventing adults over 18 from starting a private conversation on Instagram, DM, and Messenger
00:18with a teen who is not already connected with them, limiting the discoverability of a teen's account,
00:25age-gating for sensitive content that we may allow on our platform for public interest, newsworthiness,
00:31or free expression value, but may be disturbing or sensitive for young users.
00:36In addition to AI, we have teams reviewing reported accounts that appear to be used by people who are under age
00:43and also can place checks on accounts that appear under age in the course of the normal content review.
00:49If these people are unable to meet our minimum age requirements, we delete their accounts.