{"id":987780,"date":"2026-01-26T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987780"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:39:13","slug":"no-more-ai-friends-meta-cuts-off-teen-access-to-characters-on-instagram-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/no-more-ai-friends-meta-cuts-off-teen-access-to-characters-on-instagram-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"No more AI friends: Meta cuts off teen access to characters on Instagram and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta on Friday announced that it is stopping teens&#8217; access to its AI characters globally across its apps. The ban itself is \u2018temporary\u2019 and will apply not only to anyone who has a teen birthday but also to users who claim to be adults but are suspected to be teens according to the company&#8217;s age prediction technology.<\/p>\n<p>With the new restriction, teens will no longer be able to access the custom-built Meta AI characters. However, they will still have access to the standard Meta AI assistant with \u2018default, age-appropriate protections in place\u2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta on Friday announced that it is stopping teens&#8217; access to its AI characters globally across its apps. The ban itself is \u2018temporary\u2019 and will apply not only to anyone who has a teen birthday but also to users who claim to be adults but are suspected to be teens according to the company&#8217;s age prediction technology. With the new restriction, teens will no longer be able to access the custom-built Meta AI characters. However, they will still have access to the standard Meta AI assistant with \u2018default, age-appropriate protections in place\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}