The EU thinks Meta isn't doing enough to protect children

Key points

• The European Commission is inching closer to fining Meta for violating the Digital Services Act based on the preliminary findings of an EU investigation, The Financial Times reports.
• According to the Commission, Instagram and Facebook may have breached the DSA by failing to adequately prevent minors from using their respective platforms.
• Meta's terms and conditions require users to be at least 13 years of age to access Facebook and Instagram, but the EU's investigation found multiple issues with Meta's current approach to getting underage users out.
• Those include how easy it is to lie about your age when you set up an account, and how complex it is to actually report to Meta that a user is under 13. The EU also claims that Meta uses "an incomplete and arbitrary risk assessment" when it considers the danger of minors using Instagram and Facebook.
• "Meta's assessment contradicts large bodies of evidence...