Australia has introduced one of the world’s strictest social media bills banning all users under 16 from accessing platforms ...

The looming lockdown on social media for under-16s in Australia will be “a defining issue” for Generation Alpha, new research ...

A law that restricts social media use to people 16 and over goes into effect in December, but much about it remains unclear ...

Proposed techniques for age estimation of social media users include facial analysis or tracking individuals’ online metadata ...

Australia's age-assurance technology trial released 'preliminary findings' that the tech was ready to go. Now experts have ...

Australia's Voice leader and former Labor senator Fatima Payman has called on the federal government to be transparent about ...

By the end of 2025, the Australia social media ban for under-16s will come into effect. What led to this drastic measure, and will it be successful in its goal?

In an extraordinary post-legislative twist, an unlikely alliance of lawmakers have warned the Albanese government against attempting to quietly ban YouTube after its social media laws were already ...

Inman Grant has now advised the government to remove this exemption because of the harm young people can experience on YouTube. But as she has also pointed out, there are new risks for young people ...

Just as Australians are adjusting to the idea of having their ages checked for social media, age assurance rules are being ...

The teen social media ban trial may "lack credibility" because it's not testing all the ways people could seek to circumvent the ban.