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Millions of accounts closed in first two days of social media ban
Millions of Australian social media accounts held by children have been culled since new age limits took effect and safety regulators are now looking “closely” at the data to ensure all platforms are complying. Source: ABC News.
Meta blocks more than 500,000 accounts in social media ban
Meta has deactivated more than half a million accounts for teenagers across Facebook, Instagram and Threads as a result of Australia’s under-16s social media ban, the company has announced. Source: The Guardian.
Students give Albanese mixed reviews on social media ban
Anthony Albanese and Communications Minister Anika Wells visited St John Paul II College in Canberra on Thursday, meeting students and teachers the day after Australia’s new national ban on social media for under-16s came into effect. Source: Catholic Voice.
Government concedes under-16 ban has ‘teething issues’
Australia’s “world-leading” social media ban is now in effect – but D-Day wasn’t without hitches. Source: SBS News.
Government will ‘stand firm’ as under-16s ban comes into effect
Communications Minister Anika Wells has vowed to “stand firm” against looming legal challenges and pressure from technology giants as the Government’s under-16s social media ban comes into effect today. Source: The Australian.
Voters support teen media ban but sceptical it can work
Voters are throwing their support behind Australia’s teen social media ban, although most are sceptical that it can work – and less than a third of parents are planning to fully enforce it, new polling shows. Source: The Age.
Wells dismisses YouTube criticism of ban as ‘outright weird’
Concerns raised by YouTube that Australia’s social media ban for children will leave them “less safe”, thereby undermining the intent of the world-first restrictions, have been dismissed by Communications Minister Anika Wells as “outright weird”. Source: The Australian.
Under-16s ban to make Australia a ‘real-life laboratory’
Australia’s under-16 social media ban will make the nation a real-life laboratory on how best to tackle the technology’s impact on young people, experts say. Source: The Australian.
Students back social media ban for under-16s
When Communications Minister Anika Wells visited St Mary MacKillop College, Canberra, yesterday to discuss the upcoming social media ban for Australians under 16, she found many students in favour of the move. Source: Catholic Voice.