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Anger from campaigners as WhatsApp lowers age limit to 13 in UK and EU
Child safety group says Meta ‘putting profits before protecting children’, as messaging app lowers age limit from 16
Campaigners have reacted with anger to the social media company Meta lowering the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13 in the UK and EU.
The change was announced in February and came into force on Wednesday. The campaign group Smartphone Free Childhood said the move “flies in the face of the growing national demand for big tech to do more to protect our children”.
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