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At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say
(www.nytimes.com)
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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.
As someone who lied as a child to get in free (kids under 5 free) and who had a beard in high school so he could buy beer. All before the Internet.
This isn't a "new quirky Internet Age". People have been lying about their age since time immemorial.