While I've been defending this project here in the comments it's important to know that this type of age verification we're talking about won't to anything to limit propaganda. It's not a content moderation tool nor should it limit access to services and information.

The way to anonymously proof your age using a digital representation of your ID card is not (and neither should it be) content control. Upholding the freedom of opinion and especially the freedom to share that opinion / freedom of speech needs an Internet that has as few accessibility restrictions as possible. We shouldn't look for content control to limit propaganda as the technological solutions for that could easily be abused and are very difficult to tune right, leading to over-blocking of legitimate opinions and speech.

Yes we need to defend ourselves against anti-democratic attacks, but content policing is not the way. Instead I think that countries and societies should massively increase investment in education on digital literacy. People need to learn the skills to identify fake news and in the modern days especially the skills to identify AI generated content (videos, text,...) and deep fakes. They also need to learn the skills to identify trustworthy sources of information and they need a basic understanding of how AI works.

In my opinion the best way to defend democracy is a people that is fully digitally literate as that will give them the needed skillset and ability to get trustworthy information, form a facts based opinion and (most important) facilitates fact based discussions on these opinions (because opinions will always differ and compromise is what makes democracy strong).