{
  "id": 19682,
  "url": "https://www.medianama.com/2026/08/223-meta-australian-teen-accounts-os-age-checks",
  "title": "Meta blocks 756,000 Australian underage accounts, pushes for OS-level age checks",
  "summary": "Meta has removed 462,000 suspect under-16 Instagram accounts & 294,000 Facebook accounts in Australia to comply with the social media minimum age law while batting for play store level age checks. The post Meta blocks 756,000 Australian underage accounts, pushes for OS-level age checks appeared first on MEDIANAMA .",
  "authors": "Amit Singh",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation",
  "orgs": "meta",
  "regions": "australia",
  "published_at": "2026-08-14T08:57:08.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-15T05:10:17.122Z",
  "source_slug": "x-medianama-in",
  "source_name": "MediaNama (IN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.medianama.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19682",
  "original_url": "https://www.medianama.com/2026/08/223-meta-australian-teen-accounts-os-age-checks",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}