The photosharing app says it has begun asking people to share their birthdays when they open Instagram - and is even developing artificial intelligence to check whether birthdays are fake."If you haven't provided us with your birthday by a certain point, you'll need to share it to continue using Instagram," the company said in a press release.
It continued: "We recognize some people may give us the wrong birthday, and we're developing new systems to address this." Instagram claims that the move is part of a wider effort to protect young people on the app with new safety features.
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