Day one of online age crackdown: no change as children still able to log into adult content and social media sites

The media regulator’s age verification crackdown today is having little effect as social media and adult sites still only require self-declaration of age to create adult accounts

None of Ireland’s most popular social media apps have implemented new age-verification controls on the first day of the Irish media regulator’s crackdown, a survey by the Irish Independent shows.

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X still require only self-declared age to create adult accounts and access adult content.