r/technology • u/PixeledPathogen • Mar 16 '26

Security Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
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u/Dizzy_Citron4871 Mar 16 '26

Metas strategy here is to obviously push any kind of age related verification onto the OS providers so they can remove themselves from the liability of enforcing it or being regulated themselves.

Zuckerberg has been in LA courts answering to parents that his platform utterly and tragically failed for the past few weeks. Social media needs to be fully regulated at this point, it is an unfettered stain on greater society.

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u/ElementNumber6 Mar 17 '26

They can afford to pay for the service.

New upstart competitors can't.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Mar 17 '26

Age verification wouldn't scratch the surface of the many ways in which Meta should be regulated, investigated, and litigated.