Advertisers promoting alcohol, gambling, adult content, and similar age-restricted products must use Meta's targeting tools to ensure their ads only reach users who are of legal age.
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This provision establishes mandatory compliance obligations for advertisers using the platform to display age-restricted content categories. The targeting requirement creates an operational gate that conditions ad delivery on advertiser configuration of audience parameters aligned with legal age thresholds.
Parents and minors should be aware that age restrictions on harmful ad categories depend on advertisers correctly configuring age targeting and on Meta's age verification systems — which are based on user-reported birthdate and may not reliably exclude underage users from seeing age-restricted ads.
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"Some ad content is only appropriate for certain audiences. Advertisers must comply with applicable age-related laws and must set up age and country targeting to ensure that ads are seen only by appropriate audiences. Examples include alcohol, adult content, gambling, and financial products which must be targeted to users of legal age.— Excerpt from Meta Ads's Meta Advertising Policies
1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: COPPA (16 CFR Part 312) prohibits advertising directed at children under 13 without verifiable parental consent; FTC has primary enforcement authority. EU GDPR Art. 8 and national implementing laws set the age of digital consent (13-16 depending on member state). UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code, ICO) imposes strict requirements on services likely to be accessed by minors. Alcohol advertising to minors violates FTC guidelines and state liquor control laws. Gambling advertising is regulated by state gaming commissions in the US and by the UK Gambling Commission under the Gambling Act 2005. 4)
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This provision establishes mandatory compliance obligations for advertisers using the platform to display age-restricted content categories. The targeting requirement creates an operational gate that conditions ad delivery on advertiser configuration of audience parameters aligned with legal age thresholds.
Parents and minors should be aware that age restrictions on harmful ad categories depend on advertisers correctly configuring age targeting and on Meta's age verification systems — which are based on user-reported birthdate and may not reliably exclude underage users from seeing age-restricted ads.
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