Meta ‘knowingly designed its platforms to hook children’, court document claims

Meta has a backlog of up to 2.5 million accounts of youngsters awaiting action, the complaint said.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook minors, a legal document claims (AP)

Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook minors and knew – but never disclosed – it had received millions of complaints about under-age users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to reports.

The complaint emerged in a newly unsealed legal document, described in reports by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.