You are assuming that age verification must necessarily happen. It needs to be destroyed at every possible juncture.
A summary for those not familiar with it:
• Operating systems on devices whose primary user is a child must provide a way for the parent to provide age bracket information about the child.
• They must also provide an API that apps and app stores can use to find out that age range if they need to have limits on what children can do with them.
• They amended it to not apply to most open source operating systems.
Note that there is no actual age verification. It just uses what the parents put in. It is really just requiring each OS to have a standardized parental control system.
It's also the wrong way around: apps shouldn't ask for an age range, apps should provide one and the OS should do the checking.
I also object to it because it's a foot in the door for demanding that websites and apps care about that age range.
And most importantly, devices already provide parental controls in practice, and this law doesn't make those any better, it just unnecessarily cements one aspect of them into law. You can, already, on many devices, say "don't allow installing apps without permission", or "don't allow installing apps except those with this rating".
This has been the case for literally decades. Social media sites aren't (technically) supposed to allow users under 13, and porn sites have obviously had this concern since forever.
This law does in fact make parental controls better by forcing the social media companies to change how they present content to minors.
I don't totally disagree that the impetus should be on the social media companies instead of the OS but i also genuinely don't see a problem with a voluntary adult/minor flag with a consistent API either
And addictive feeds are a problem for everyone, of any age.
I mean look, up to me, sure, ban Facebook entirely or whatever, but i genuinely don't get why they shouldn't be required to exclude kids if they're gonna exist?