"As a new child safety law comes into effect in Brazil from March, requiring platforms providing gambling, pornography, and other such content to verify ages, users are learning to circumvent the tech, Simone Lahorgue Nunes, founding partner at law firm Lahorgue Advogadas Associadas in Rio de Janeiro, told Rest of World.

“Age-verification technologies are not infallible,” she said. “Minors are using increasingly sophisticated techniques, including VPNs [virtual private networks] and AI-generated deepfakes or selfies. Conversely, overly stringent measures may drive underage users toward the dark web or services hosted in so-called digital havens, thereby exacerbating the very risks such regulation seeks to mitigate.”

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Circumventing age verification doesn’t even need much sophistication. In a subreddit on bypassing the Roblox checks, users recommend fake IDs and AI-generated photos. “I used a fake ID of [Joseph] Stalin and it got accepted,” one user wrote. Another user posted a video on X that showed a crude face painted on a thumb going through the age check on Roblox and being assessed to be 13 to 15 years old."

https://restofworld.org/2026/social-media-age-verification-tools/

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