Lero researcher Dr Liliana Pasquale, assistant professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. (IMAGE)

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Lero researcher Dr Liliana Pasquale, assistant professor at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.

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Children of all ages can bypass age verification measures to sign-up to the world's most popular social media apps by simply lying about their age, a study led by Dr Liliana Pasquale of Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software at University College Dublin, Ireland has found.

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