Facebook and Instagram will take down posts for gun sales that don't follow the law and block all children under 18 from viewing posts from gun sellers or traders.
The change in policy, announced today in a Facebook blog post, followed a month-long campaign by Moms Demand Action that showed how easy it was to obtain illegal firearms through Facebook. The group collected more than 230,000 signatures urging Facebook to do something about it.
"We will remove reported posts that explicitly indicate a specific attempt to evade or help others evade the law," the social net said in a statement.
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