Continued from October 2026 blog
Age Assurance & Content Restrictions:
Meta must employ effective & privacy-protective age assurance measures to prevent minors from accessing age-inappropriate content and/or to prevent children who are under the age limit from accessing the platform at all. The age assurance methods will be tested every year by a third party to ensure they meet standards for efficacy and privacy.
Addictive Features:
Meta must hide like counts by default for minors. They also must allow minors to opt-out of personalized algorithmic feeds and will send prompts every 90 days reminding them of the ability to opt-out.
Excessive Usage:
Meta must implement a two-hour daily time limit for minors (split between Facebook and Instagram). This daily limit will go down to 1 hour if other major competitors like TikTok, Snap, and YouTube agree to do the same. Meta must implement “productive pauses” to interrupt mindless scrolling. This will involve sending a prompt when a teen has been using a platform continually for 15 minutes, and when they have used the platforms cumulatively for 60 minutes, then 90 minutes.
Meta must also implement a “night access mode” and a “school mode” by default for teen users. Both night access mode and school mode will disable push notifications, unless changed by a parent/caregiver. Night access mode will also only allow the teen to use messages and settings—other aspects of Meta platforms will be inaccessible. Further,
Eating Disorders:
Meta must disable cosmetic filters for minors. These filters, which mimic the effects of plastic surgery, were shown to increase eating disorders among teenage girls. Internal documents showed Meta weighed the pros and cons of keeping these filters, and decided that the con of limiting growth outweighed the pro of reducing eating disorders for teen girls.
Parental Supervision:
Meta must provide additional information to parents/caregivers to facilitate supervision of their child’s online activity. This includes notifying the parent/caregiver when the child communicates with an adult user, when they search for harmful content, or if the child creates a secondary account. Meta must also inform parents/caregivers how much time their child is spending on the platforms. Meta must also issue various prompts to assist parents when setting up controls or changing settings.
And more! Meta has agreed to make most of these changes within the coming months, with the exception of their age assurance framework, which they have agreed to implement within a year.