Facebook: has a rule that under-13s are not allowed to have profiles. Photograph: Paula Solloway / Alamy/Alamy
Facebook has admitted that there is almost nothing it can do to stop young users setting up profiles and potentially being exposed to explicit content, online bullying and grooming.
The world’s biggest social network has a rule that under-13s are not allowed to have profiles and also has strict rules for policing explicit content and preventing bullying and grooming.
However, there is no stringent verification system to prove the age of Facebook users and some research estimates a third of 9 to 12-year-olds in the UK have a profile on the social network.
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