Explained: Why Meta has been accused of coveting hundreds of thousands of underage users on its platforms

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms is in hot water for illicit use of its platforms by children and negligence on its part to curb it. New unsealed legal documents show that the company has received over a million reports of users under the age of 13 on Instagram since 2019, and yet has shut down only a fraction of these accounts, as per reports by The Wall Street Journal and New York Times.