As Europe debates whether to restrict children's access to social media, Big Tech has a proposal: put the app stores in charge.
Meta argues that parents should have the option to approve or reject their children’s requests to download social media apps and that their age should be verified in the process. In Snap Inc.’s view, app-store verification would give “more consistent age signals” from the device, which would help keep underage users off apps they shouldn’t be using.
