{"id":1028794,"date":"2026-08-14T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028794"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:13:03","slug":"meta-says-it-removed-over-750000-instagram-and-facebook-accounts-to-comply-with-australias-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/meta-says-it-removed-over-750000-instagram-and-facebook-accounts-to-comply-with-australias-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta says it removed over 750,000 Instagram and Facebook accounts to comply with Australia&#8217;s social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has said that it removed access to more than 750,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts in Australia that it believed belonged to users under the age of 16. This figure includes over 4,50,000 accounts removed from Instagram and over 2,90,000 accounts removed from Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enforcement is ongoing, and these numbers will continue to grow,&#8221; Meta said in a statement on Thursday, adding that it will continue to publish further updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has said that it removed access to more than 750,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts in Australia that it believed belonged to users under the age of 16. This figure includes over 4,50,000 accounts removed from Instagram and over 2,90,000 accounts removed from Facebook. &#8220;Enforcement is ongoing, and these numbers will continue to grow,&#8221; Meta said in a statement on Thursday, adding that it will continue to publish further updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028794","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028795,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028794\/revisions\/1028795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}