They’ve never known a world without likes, filters and endless scrolling – but now, Australian kids are navigating life amid a groundbreaking social media ban.
How grieving parents, media campaigns, and political opportunism collided to create the world’s most ambitious - and contentious - experiment in digital regulation.
Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns on digital platforms in the democratic world.
Overnight, around half a million accounts on Meta’s social media platforms Facebook and Instagram vanished in Australia.
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Australia is about to ban under-16s from social media – but teens are already outsmarting it
Will the ban reduce harm, or just relocate it where adults can’t see? Australia is counting down to a (very watched) world-first move: banning everyone under 16 from social media. The government says ...
Governments around the world are grappling with how to protect children from online harm, but the Australians are going furthest with a ban on social media for under-16s. There’s strong public support ...
For Nenagh -based TD Ryan O’Meara, social media safety is a subject he describes as deeply personal and deeply urgent, shaped ...
Roblox CEO David Baszucki said that a recent attempt to understand all of the latest AI research was "humbling." "It is hard to get to a position where you can understand all of those research papers, ...
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