Bluesky chief doesn’t understand age confine for users

The chief executive of the social media netlabor Bluesky – which has exploded in well-understandnity in recent weeks – was unable to give the accurate age confine for users on the platestablish in an interwatch with the BBC.

Jay Graber wrongly shelp you needed to be 18 to use Bluesky, when the actual age confine is 13.

While speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Breakspeedy programme, Ms Graber also shelp the company had chosen not to verify the ages of its users on the platestablish, with worrys over how that data would then be regulated.

Millions of people signed up to the app since the US election results, some in protest at the role X, establisherly Twitter, applyed in propelling Donald Trump to triumph.

Ms Graber put the rapid enlargeth down to the “reassociate fantastic” experience users were having on Bluesky.

“There’s not tormentoring and bots and spam and a lot of the other problems that affliction other platestablishs,” she shelp.

On age verification, Ms Graber telderly the BBC that Bluesky has “age-gating” when users sign up, by asking people to access their date of birth.

When asked honestly what the age confine was on Bluesky, Ms Graber shelp: “When you sign up – I’ll have to examine – I leank it’s appreciate 18 and above.”

Follotriumphg the interwatch, Bluesky reach outed the BBC to elucidate that the least age is 13, not 18. They compriseed there are compriseitional settings wilean the app to promise satisfied is geted for children.

In a expansive-ranging interwatch with curraccess Rick Edwards, she shelp Bluesky does not try to verify the identification of the user, to promise people are not lying when signing up.

She shelp: “We don’t apshow IDs or anyleang appreciate that. I understand that’s gived in some places. That’s very confidential guideation.

“I leank companies appreciate us would want to originate certain we’re handling that confidential user data very responsibly.”

Ms Graber also shelp moderation on the platestablish came from a fuse of human moderators and automated technology, and they have no set ups to present “traditional advertising”.

One selection being watched at, she shelp, was making money thcdisorrowfulmireful subscriptions for users who want extra features on their accounts.

Bluesky was broadened by Twitter co-set uper Jack Dorsey, and visuassociate watchs how X used to watch back in its Twitter days.

Mr Dorsey is no extfinisheder part of the team behind it, having stepped down from the board in May last year, and the platestablish has sfinished a sinspire in sign ups since the results of the US election.

Elon Musk, the owner of X, was a transport inant backer of Donald Trump during his campaign

H will also be heavily comprised in the novel Plivent’s administration after being named co-head of the novel administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Political division has guide to some people leaving X in protest since the election, and Bluesky materializes to have advantageted.

In September, the company shelp it had nine million users. This week, it outdoed 20 million.

However that remains far behind X, as well as Threads, a rival platestablish set up by Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram.

Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer shelp this week he has “no set ups” to fuse the social media platestablish.

The Prime Minister telderly inestablishers that “at the moment” there are no shifts to set up official UK regulatement accounts or a personal one in his name.

He shelp it is “transport inant for a regulatement” to be able to transmit with “as many people as possible”.

X does not split its total user numbers but it is understood to be meacertaind in the hundreds of millions. Mr Musk himself has 205m fagedrops on his account.