• According to a September 2025 report by child-advocacy groups, namely Fairplay, Molly Rose Foundation, ParentsSOS, and Cybersecurity for Democracy, Meta’s safety tools for children and teenagers are ineffective. The report systematically tested 47 of Instagram’s 53 claimed safety features for teens and found that 30 out of 47 are ineffective.
• On September 2025, Jason Sattizahn a former researcher for Meta Platforms from 2018 to 2024, testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law that Meta's legal team manipulated internal research about child safety and ordered staff to delete findings that showed harm to teenagers.
• According to an internal report seen by Reuters, Meta’s AI rules have let bots have ‘sensual’ chats with kids.
• On November 2023, Arturo Béjar, a former Meta Platforms engineering director (2009-2015) told Congress that he saw first-hand how Instagram was not protecting his child from harassment. He said his concerns and warnings were unheeded by the company.
• In 2023, court fillings indicated Meta estimates around 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagram receive online harassment each day.