{"id":1028731,"date":"2026-08-14T07:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028731"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:59:35","slug":"meta-says-it-has-taken-down-756000-australian-teen-accounts-as-ban-enforcement-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/meta-says-it-has-taken-down-756000-australian-teen-accounts-as-ban-enforcement-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta says it has taken down 756,000 Australian teen accounts as ban enforcement looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said on Thursday it had taken down more than 750,000 accounts it suspected were held by Australians aged under 16 since a world-first ban on teen accounts, and promised more action in the face of possible regulatory intervention. <\/p>\n<p>The company said it had deactivated 462,000 suspect Instagram accounts and 294,000 suspect Facebook accounts from just before the Australian social media ban went live in December to June, up from 331,000 Instagram accounts \u200cand 173,000 Facebook \u2060accounts it \u2060said it had removed by January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said on Thursday it had taken down more than 750,000 accounts it suspected were held by Australians aged under 16 since a world-first ban on teen accounts, and promised more action in the face of possible regulatory intervention. The company said it had deactivated 462,000 suspect Instagram accounts and 294,000 suspect Facebook accounts from just before the Australian social media ban went live in December to June, up from 331,000 Instagram accounts \u200cand 173,000 Facebook \u2060accounts it \u2060said it had removed by January.<\/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-1028731","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\/1028731","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=1028731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028732,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028731\/revisions\/1028732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}