Social Media News A Social Media Ban For Under 16s Passes The Australian Senate And Will Soon Be A World First Law

Social media ban for children under 16 starts in Australia

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed a groundbreaking social media ban for children under 16 as families taking back power from tech giants. Read More

Australia's social media ban for kids under 16 goes into effect

Australia’s social media ban for children 16 and under officially went into effect at midnight local time on Dec. 10. Read More

Millions of Australian children just lost access to social media. What’s happening and will it work?

Children across Australia woke up on Wednesday with no access to their social media accounts under a world-first ban designed to shelter those under 16 from addictive algorithms, online predators, and ... Read More

Australia Social Media Ban for Kids Under 16 Goes Into Effect: New Internet Safety Law Explained

Australia's groundbreaking social media ban for children under 16, aimed at combating cyberbullying and harmful content, sets a global precedent in online safety laws. under-16 social media ... Read More

Australia bans under-16s from social media in world-first crackdown

Australia banned under-16s from social media in a world-first crackdown on Wednesday, declaring it was time to "take back control" from formidable tech giants. Read More

Reddit Sues Australian Government to Block Social Media Ban

The company said the new law, which makes it illegal for children under 16 to have social media accounts, infringes on children’s rights. Read More

Australia is banning social media for kids under 16. How will it work?

From 10 December, social media companies will have to take "reasonable steps" to ensure that under-16s in Australia cannot set up accounts on their platforms and that existing accounts are deactivated ... Read More

Australia leader defends social media ban as teenagers brag about staying online

A day after the world-first law took effect, the country’s social media feeds were flooded with comments from people claiming to be under 16. Read More

Instagram to start closing Australian teen accounts ahead of social media ban

Younger Australian teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Threads are being told their accounts will be shut down ahead of the country's social media ban for under-16s. Meta, which owns the three brands ... Read More

Australia Plans Social Media Ban for Under-16s

X is one of the social media sites that will soon be X-cluded for a certain age group. Australia is preparing to implement a world-first restriction barring children under 16 from holding social media ... Read More

Social media ban on the way for under-16s amid ‘the question of which is more important’

The Government is to introduce online verification processes that will effectively ban under-16s from social media, Extra.ie understands. Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan has told the Dáil that work ... Read More

What to Know About Australia’s Social Media Ban for Kids Under 16

Kids in Australia will no longer be able to have accounts on social media apps like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat as Australia’s under-16 social media ban kicks in Wednesday. Read More