In late November 2024, Australia implemented a ban on social media for kids under 16, one of the first laws of its kind. The ...

YouTube plays an important part in the digital lives of teens. It is a key source of information and entertainment for young ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Parliament on Friday in a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat ...

Australia's government carved out an exemption for YouTube when it passed laws banning social media access for children under 16, but some mental health and extremism experts say the video-sharing ...

After Australia's social media ban for children under 16, global attention has shifted to other countries seeking to put ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said DeepSeek posed an ”unacceptable risk” to government technology and the immediate ban ...

Sunita Bose, managing director of Digital Industry Group Inc., an advocate for the digital industry in Australia including ... She said the proposed social media ban risked isolating some children ...

Banning phones in schools is not linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental wellbeing, the first study of ...

The worst of the ills of social media are coming home to roost. While there’s no denying the positive effects it has had on ...

The ban for children 16 and under means Meta, TikTok and Snapchat can be fined up to $50 million but Google's YouTube is set ...