Home Computing UK News Kids are beating age checks in cartoonishly funny ways Vika Glitter / Pexels A fake beard might be the funniest new loophole in online safety check. According to a recent Internet Matters report , some children have been drawing facial hair on themselves to trick facial age-estimation tools into thinking they are older. One parent said their 12-year-old used an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache and was verified as 15. Can a fake beard really beat online age checks? It sounds funny at first, however, this trick points to a much bigger cat-and-mouse problem. Platforms are adding stricter checks because of laws like the U.K. Online Safety Act, while younger users are finding ways around them almost as quickly. Internet Matters found that 53% of children had recently been asked to verify their age online, but 46% said age checks are easy to bypass. A third of children said they had already done so. Meta The workarounds are not always high-tech.…