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Meta told to pay $375m for misleading users over child safety https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql75dn07n2o

A jury found that Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, was liable for the way in which its platforms endangered children and exposed them to sexually explicit material and contact with sexual predators.

This is the same company behind age verification to protect child but in reality it is the biggest offender out there. How ironic?

Sprocket The Clown

@SprocketClown@mastodon.social replied · 3 weeks ago

@nixCraft a slap on the wrist for them. They should have been charged exponentially more.

Federation Bot

@Federation_Bot replied · 3 weeks ago

@nixCraft the whole point of Meta's age verification lobbying efforts: make somebody else responsible for doing age verification.

That way they can throw up their hands and say "we asked the app store and it said they're of age!"

They're trying to make their problem into somebody else's problem. And making all of our lives worse in the process.

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