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Facebook owner ‘knowingly designed its platforms to hook children’, court document says
Meta argued that age verification is a “complex industry challenge”
Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook minors, and knew - but never disclosed - that it had received millions of complaints about under-age users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to reports.
The complaint emerged in a newly unsealed legal document described in reports by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The complaint, originally made public in redacted form, was the opening ...
