Since a world-first ban on underage accounts, Meta, the company of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Thursday that it has removed over 750,000 accounts that it believed were owned by Australians under the age of 16. It also pledged to take further action in the event of potential government intervention. From soon before the Australian social media ban went into effect in December to June, the business claimed to have deactivated 462,000 suspicious Instagram accounts and 294,000 suspicious Facebook profiles, up from 331,000 Instagram accounts and around 173,000 Facebook accounts by January.
Just as Australia’s internet regulator is considering an enforcement lawsuit against platforms, including some that Meta owns, that it claims have failed to take adequate steps to comply with the law, the largest social media company in the world has stated that it wants to comply with a law that it and other platforms have vehemently opposed. More than eight out of ten under-16s were still using social media during the first three months of the ban, according to Australian government statistics and numerous independent studies, but no other platforms have revealed compliance data that corresponds with the time frame provided by Meta.
Concerns over social media’s effects on children’s and young teenagers’ physical and emotional health led the Australian government to draft the historic bill, which went into effect on December 10. Australia has accused the platforms of purposefully making the ban fail, and it has proposed a law to double the maximum penalty for non-compliance to A$99 million ($69.75 million) and give the regulator more authority to discover documents. Other nations around the world are considering similar age restrictions.
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