{"id":1005848,"date":"2026-04-30T09:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005848"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:51:30","slug":"eu-finds-meta-failing-to-keep-under-13s-off-facebook-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/eu-finds-meta-failing-to-keep-under-13s-off-facebook-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"EU finds Meta failing to keep under-13s off Facebook, Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU said on Wednesday Meta is failing to prevent children under 13 using Facebook and Instagram, potentially exposing them to inappropriate content &#8212; and putting the tech giant at risk of a massive fine. <\/p>\n<p>The European Union has in recent months stepped up efforts to protect children online, with several member countries considering social media bans for under-16s. <\/p>\n<p>The EU executive is also exploring a possible bloc-wide age limit on social media after coming under intense pressure to take broader action following Australia&#8217;s groundbreaking ban on using such platforms for under-16s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU said on Wednesday Meta is failing to prevent children under 13 using Facebook and Instagram, potentially exposing them to inappropriate content &#8212; and putting the tech giant at risk of a massive fine. The European Union has in recent months stepped up efforts to protect children online, with several member countries considering social media bans for under-16s. The EU executive is also exploring a possible bloc-wide age limit on social media after coming under intense pressure to take broader action following Australia&#8217;s groundbreaking ban on using such platforms for under-16s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005872,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005848\/revisions\/1005872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}