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Meta agrees to pay up to $17.1bn to settle claims its platforms harm children (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] Toasticus@piefed.social 8 points 7 hours ago

Meta maintained throughout the brief trial that it had worked extensively over the years to make its platforms safer for its youngest users, pouring resources into testing and research, and building new features.

No, you've made it a pain in the ass process to delete a facebook account. I've counted, you have to go through almost 5 prompts to finally delete an account. It's simpler on mobile, by about 2 extra steps shorter, but that indicates that no, you did not work extensively to make it safe if you can't make deleting easier.