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Instagram is facing an FTC investigation regarding its hosting of child-oriented content, including subject matter, characters, activities, music, and more. The presence of thousands of child-oriented accounts and pages on the platform has raised concerns about Instagram's compliance with COPPA regulations.

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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 36 of 100.

e. Subject matter, characters, activities, music, and other content on Instagram are child-oriented.

794. Under 16 C.F.R. § 312.2, “subject matter, visual content, use of animated characters or child-oriented activities and incentives, music or other audio content” are relevant to determining whether an online service, or a portion thereof, is directed to children.


795. Instagram publicly hosts thousands of accounts and pages on its Platform that include child-oriented subject matter, characters, activities, music, and other categories of content for children.


796. To list only a few representative examples, Meta has admitted that it hosts the following accounts or pages on Instagram. Each such account or page on Instagram is child-oriented because it hosts images and videos relating to a character, product, or brand that is specially made for and/or marketed to children:


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797. These and thousands of other child-oriented parts of Instagram are “a part []of” an online service that “is directed to children.”[39]


798. Meta’s maintenance and/or promotion of thousands of child-oriented pages on Instagram is one of the ways that Meta causes Instagram to be “directed to children.”




[39] See 16 C.F.R. § 312.2.



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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.


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