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Social media giant Meta has been urged to reverse the lowering of the minimum age to use WhatsApp. The change, which reduces the age limit from 16 to 13, came into force in the EU and UK on Thursday. Campaign group Smartphone Free Childhood said the move by Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, was “tone deaf”. “WhatsApp is putting shareholder profits first and children’s safety second,” co-founder Daisy Greenwell told UK newspaper The Times. “Reducing their age of use from 16 to 13 years old is completely tone deaf and ignores the increasingly loud alarm bells being rung by scientists…

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