Facebook Bans 20,000 Underage Users A Day
Facebook closes 20,000 underage children's accounts every day.
Some 20,000 children under age 13 get kicked off of Facebook for lying about their age every day.
That came out during testimony by one Facebook’s privacy advisors, Mozelle Thompson, before Australia’s parliamentary cyber-safety committee, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Facebook’s rules require users to be at least 13 years old, but like Thompson said to Parliament, as quoted by the paper:
There are people who lie. There are people who are under 13 [accessing Facebook]. …Facebook removes 20,000 people a day, people who are underage… It’s not perfect.
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