Committee publication · Correspondence · 3 June 2026
Letter from Meta relating to Children's TV and video content evidence session follow-up, 20 May 2026
From: Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Inquiry: Children's tv and video content
Summary
Meta's response to Culture, Media & Sport Committee questions from an April 2026 evidence session on children's TV and video content. Meta describes Teen Account safeguards for users aged 13–17, parental supervision tools including time limits (as low as 15 minutes daily) and scheduled breaks, and clarifies UK user metrics are reported as daily/monthly active people rather than account numbers, with an estimated 4% of accounts classified as fake.
Key findings
- Teen Accounts automatically apply strictest settings to all Instagram users aged 13–17, limiting contacts, content visibility, and usage time; 97% of teens aged 13–15 remain in default restrictions.
- Parental supervision tools allow parents to set hard daily usage limits (minimum 15 minutes) and non-dismissable scheduled breaks during designated periods such as school hours.
- An Ipsos survey reports 94% of parents find Teen Accounts helpful; Meta does not disclose specific percentage of UK under-16s with parent-connected supervision tools.
- Meta reports 3.56 billion daily active people across its app family globally as of Q1 2026; multiple accounts per user are intentional platform design.
- Approximately 4% of monthly active accounts are estimated as fake or inauthentic; over 99% are proactively detected by AI systems before user reports.
Tone
ProceduralTopics
child-safetysocial-media-regulationparental-controlsplatform-accountability
Key actors
Meta, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Ipsos
Notable line
“97% of teens aged 13–15 have stayed in these built-in restrictions.”
Key Quotes
“Through Teen Accounts on Instagram - which are automatically applied to all users aged 13 to 17 - we place all teens into our strictest settings, limiting who can contact them, the content they see, and the time they spend on our platforms.”
“Parents can enforce hard limits that prevent continued use after a daily threshold is reached, with the ability to set limits as low as 15 minutes per day.”
“We estimate that around 4% of monthly active accounts across our platforms are fake, and we action hundreds of millions of these each quarter — over 99% detected proactively by our AI systems before being reported by users.”
Source · parliament.uk record ↗