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Meta backs EU digital majority age
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.
"I think it makes much more sense that this is done at the ecosystem, app store, operating system level," said Global Director of Public Policy at Instagram Tara Hopkins. Meta said its support for an EU-wide digital majority age is not an endorsement of government mandated social media bans, which the company claimed, "take away parental authority and focus narrowly on one type of online service". Video sharing platforms based in Ireland will face new regulatory obligations to verify users' ages before showing adult content from 21 July under Coimisiún na Meán's online safety code.
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