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Meta lowers WhatsApp’s age limit in Europe, drawing critics’ wrath
WhatsApp's minimum age lowered in the UK and EU to 13, drawing criticism from children's advocates and government officials critical of parent company Meta.
Vicky Ford, a Conservative member of Parliament, told Sky News the age-limit reduction was “highly irresponsible.” Mark Bunting, the director of online safety strategy for Ofcom, the UK’s media regulator, told BBC Radio the agency was already writing up codes of practice for social media companies to follow, with fines at the ready once it had the power to levy them. Earlier this week, Meta announced that it would soon begin testing out a means of blurring explicit photos sent through Instagram’s direct messages, particularly to those underage, which is one component of “sextortion” attacks that target minors. A second-generation newspaperman, Good's career before covering video games included daily newspaper stints in North Carolina; in upstate New York; in Washington, D.C., with the Associated Press; and…
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