Big Tech defeated by cartoon-grade deception. 🥸
"Children demonstrated a clear awareness of how to bypass age checks ... One technique brought up was children drawing facial hair on themselves so that the tools verifying them would think they were older”
Some kids are bypassing age verification checks with a fake mustache
[https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/some-kids-are-bypassing-age-verification-checks-with-a-fake-mustache/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub ](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/some-kids-are-bypassing-age-verification-checks-with-a-fake-mustache/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub )
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