(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...

The new policy restricts children under the age of 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms. It also positions ...

Australia has picked a fight with the world’s largest video platform by backtracking on an earlier promise to exclude YouTube in its social media ban for children under 16. The Labor government said ...

The national ban is the first of its kind in the world. Australia’s social media ban for children 16 and under officially went into effect at midnight local time on Dec. 10. Many child advocates and ...

NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Susan Sawyer of the University of Melbourne about Australia's new ban on social media for children under 16. It goes into effect next week. Next week, Australia is ...

The Australian government confirmed that a new law banning children under 16 from using certain social media platforms will go into effect next month, despite a legal challenge filed on Wednesday.

Kids in Australia routinely use social media apps and can bypass the age limit restrictions set by these platforms, suggests a report by the country’s online safety regulator on Thursday. eSafety’s ...

Melbourne, Australia — Technology giant Meta on Thursday began sending thousands of young Australians a two-week warning to downland their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, ...

Australia becomes the first democracy to ban social media for under-16s starting December 10, with tech firms facing fines up to $32 million for noncompliance. Policymakers from Brazil to Denmark are ...

Catherine Jane Archer is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Catherine Page Jeffery has received funding from the Australian Research Council as well as ...