Meta says it deactivated 756,000 Australian accounts belonging to under-16s, yet studies suggest more than 80% of teens are still evading the country’s social media ban.

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said on Thursday it had taken down more than 750,000 accounts it suspected were held by Australians aged under 16 since a world-first ban on teen…

The company said it had deactivated 462,000 suspect Instagram accounts and 294,000 suspect Facebook accounts from just before the Australian social media ban went live in December…