Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and X among apps to face fines if they fail to purge Australia-based users younger than 16 ...

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

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. A raft of popular apps and websites - ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has already described the ban as a success because it has prompted families to discuss social ...

Country to start Wednesday implementing world’s first national ban on social media use by children under 16 - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Australia’s under-16 Social Media Ban and what it means for Roblox. Which platforms are included, and which are not.

"Delaying children’s access to social media accounts gives them valuable time to learn and grow, free of the powerful, unseen forces of harmful and deceptive design features such as opaque algorithms ...

A logon screen for Facebook and the new Meta policy are photographed in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Technology giant Meta on Thursday began sending ...

The private online space was made accessible to five-year-old gamers in a ‘mislabelling’ error — but it was not the only one.

Several social media platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, have already moved to deactivate hundreds of thousands of ...

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...

Roblox is rolling out new age-verification features as the gaming platform faces mounting lawsuits claiming it endangers children. Starting soon, users who want to chat on the platform will be ...