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Instagram’s Audience Includes Millions of Users Under the Age of 13

by Legal PDFNovember 9th, 2023
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Instagram is under FTC scrutiny as its user base includes millions of individuals under the age of 13, a fact considered pivotal in determining whether the platform targets children. The FTC believes that Meta possesses credible evidence supporting this claim, and external sources corroborate the presence of a substantial under-13 user population on Instagram.
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The United States v Meta Platforms Court Filing October 24, 2023 is part of HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series. You can jump to any part in this filing here. This is part 32 of 100.

a. Instagram’s audience composition includes millions of users under the age of 13.

750. Under 16 C.F.R. § 312.2, empirical evidence regarding audience composition is relevant to determining whether an online service, or a portion thereof, is directed to children.


751-754. [Redacted]


755. There are millions of under-13 users on Instagram today.


756. The sheer number of under-13 users of Instagram composing Instagram’s audience demonstrates that Instagram is, in fact, targeted to children.


757. On information and belief, Meta possesses competent and reliable empirical evidence, and such evidence is corroborated by external sources, reflecting the generally known fact that there are millions of under-13 users on Instagram.



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This court case 4:23-cv-05448 retrieved on October 25, 2023, from Washingtonpost.com is part of the public domain. The court-created documents are works of the federal government, and under copyright law, are automatically placed in the public domain and may be shared without legal restriction.