Catherina Gioino’s 5 May 2026 Fortune article reports on the Internet Matters Online Safety Act report for a business audience. The saved copy leads with the survey’s most vivid finding: children physically altering their appearance, such as drawing on a moustache with an eyebrow pencil, to fool facial age estimation.
Beyond summarizing the survey, the article adds two pieces of reporting. It records that in early May 2026 the UK government said it would impose some form of age or functionality restriction on social media for under-16s, framing the survey within the live under-16 ban debate that also includes Australia’s prohibition. And it quotes Ricardo Amper, founder of the biometric-authentication company Incode Technologies, arguing that checks must be “trained for fraud, with liveness and deepfake detection built in” so they can distinguish a real child from a replayed video or an altered face. Amper’s company sells exactly that technology, so his diagnosis aligns with his commercial interest; the weakness of deployed estimation is documented independently in the survey itself.
The article is secondary reporting, and the figures it cites are preserved in the primary source note above. Its independent value is the government-announcement dateline, used in UK Online Safety Act, and the vendor reaction.
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