At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say
nytimes.com
Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states.
Instead, the social media giant “routinely continued to collect” children’s personal information, like their locations and email addresses, without parental permission, in violation of a federal children’s privacy law, according to the court filing. Meta could face hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, in civil penalties should the states prove the allegations.
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I mean no shit? Everyone knows kids will lie about their age to sign up for something. 99% of kids born after the internet got popular have lied about their age. Everyone knows they do it.
The point is they knew about it and didn’t remove them from the platform while saying the opposite.
How did they know about it?
People reported the accounts
Are all reports legitimate?
That's up to Meta to figure out, but probably not. Obviously they ignored many legitimate reports if the problem has escalated this far. It's their responsibility to sift through user reports to find the valid ones, then take action.
It literally says why in the first sentence I copied from the article.
Lol, you're being weirdly hostile to me for no reason.
Are all reports legitimate?
I responded to this before the other one, and I find it ignorant when someone asks a question that’s already answered in the first sentence.