New references in Instagram's code suggest the company could be developing a paid verification feature following the rollout of a similar system at Twitter under Elon Musk. Recently discovered code ...

A Moscow court has declared the websites of two companies offering Instagram profile verification services “extremist” and banned them in Russia. The court rulings were discovered in the case archive ...

Meta Platforms Inc. META-Q has begun allowing “up-and-coming creators” in Canada to pay to be verified on Facebook and Instagram. The social media company says in a release that the ...

Instagram said on Thursday it is testing new options for users to verify their age on the platform, starting with people in the United States. The photo-sharing service owned by Meta Platforms Inc ...

Instagram announced that AI age verification will be used to determine which users are teens. The goal is to place 13- to 17-year-old users in newly announced teen accounts. If Meta's artificial ...

Social media companies could soon verify their users’ age in New York by requesting a selfie or a video, according to newly proposed regulations. State Attorney General Letitia James’ office released ...

Instagram is expanding its age-verification tools to users in Canada. Specifically, users between the ages of 13 and 17 will be subject to the new tools. The company will use two ways to verify a ...