"Meta’s extensive internal records documenting its actual knowledge of its under-13 Instagram users and collection of data from those users include the following: (1) charts boasting Instagram’s penetration into 11- and 12-year-old demographic cohorts; (2) an internal report presented to Zuckerberg regarding the four million under-13 users on Instagram; (3) emails and policies documenting Meta’s mishandling of known under-13 user accounts; (4) discussions among Meta’s researchers taking pains to avoid uncovering Instagram’s under-13 users through their studies; (5) documents admitting that Instagram’s registration process regularly elicits false self-reported ages from its under-13 users; and (6) data from Meta’s age-estimation algorithms confirming that millions of individual Instagram accounts belong to children under the age of 13."
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First seen: 2026-08-27 ·
Last seen: 2026-08-27 ·
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