A June 2025 post promoting our article on age verification for pornographic websites ended up labeled as “nudity and sexual activity” eight months later.
In a high-stakes legal appearance, Zuckerberg expressed regret over Meta’s sluggishness on child safety issues—while simultaneously spreading blame to rivals Apple and Google.
The tests showed that Meta’s promised protections for minors often fail in practice, raising fresh concerns about whether the company has misled parents.
Hundreds of thousands of adolescents are expected to be impacted by the ban, with Instagram alone reporting about 350,000 Australian users aged 13 to 15.
