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Grace Crivellaro

Meta slams social media ban as it blocks child accounts

Meta wants the onus of blocking children put on app stores rather than social media platforms. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

More than half a million accounts have been wiped from Facebook, Instagram and Threads since under-16s were banned from social media in December.

Meta, the tech giant behind the three platforms, said it had removed 544,052 accounts belonging to teens in a compliance update a month after the ban came into force on December 10.

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