The new legislation — passed Thursday, Nov. 28 — gives platforms including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok a year to begin enforcing the age limit Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...
From Dec. 10, young teenagers in Australia will be banned, under new legislation, from social media platforms such as ...
It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of ...
Steven Overly is the host of POLITICO Tech, a daily podcast that explores the ways technology is disrupting politics and policy. As countries around the world race to counter the tech industry’s ...
Australia could use a range of technologies to implement its social media ban for under-16s but all have risks or shortcomings, a report has found. The government says its ban, which comes into effect ...
SYDNEY, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Australia has launched a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign that depicts its world-first ban on social media for teenagers as "for the good of our kids" ahead of its ...
Australia has launched a multimillion-dollar national awareness campaign to promote an upcoming law that will ban social media access for anyone under 16, framing the change as being “for the good of ...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has stared down YouTube after the platform foreshadowed a legal challenge if stripped of a social media ban exemption. Google has signalled it would challenge bringing ...
Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Association for Information Science and ...
SYDNEY - Australia has launched a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign that depicts its world-first ban on social media for teenagers as “for the good of our kids” ahead of its December start date.