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Musk's X opposes Australia's tougher teen social media rulesElon Musk's X platform criticizes Australia's proposed internet regulator powers. Australia's law barring accounts for under-16s faces sign...
Elon Musk's X says Australia social media ban undermines international lawAustralia's world-first law barring accounts for under-16s took effect last December, drawing criticism from social media companies, mostly...
French youth social media ban meets age check conundrumFrance's parliament is weighing a social media ban for under-15s, following in the footsteps of Australia and Indonesia, although enforceme...
Australia's teen social media ban fails to clear first hurdle in age checks, says studyAustralian online platforms are failing initial age checks for a teen social media ban. Studies show most under-16s can still access platfo...
Australia's teen social media ban fails to clear first hurdle in age checks, says studySince December, Australia's new social media law has mandated that platforms including Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube bar people under 16 ...
Australia toughens kids' social media ban, doubles potential penalties for tech firmsAustralia is doubling penalties for tech firms failing to enforce its child social media ban, as evidence shows limited impact on teen usag...
Australia pledges tougher enforcement of social media ban for teensAustralia is strengthening laws to ban social media for under-16s, despite initial challenges in enforcement. Prime Minister Albanese vows ...
Australia teen social media ban has little impact: researchAustralia's social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers' scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the fi...
Florida sues TikTok, claiming it violates state child safety lawThe lawsuit seeks a court order directing the platform, which is owned by ByteDance, to make changes to bring it into compliance with the l...
Malaysia Bans Under-16s From Social Media: New Age Verification Rules EnforcedMalaysia has begun enforcing new rules. Children under 16 are now banned from social media accounts. Platforms must implement age verificat...
Meta to expand tech safeguards for teens in Europe, US Facebook usersMeta Platforms is enhancing safety for young users. New protections for teen accounts are coming to 27 European Union nations and Facebook ...
Bengaluru news: Two separate incidents show minors driving illegally, risking their lives on busy roadsAlarming incidents of very young children riding two-wheelers in traffic have sparked outrage. One case showed a child under ten precarious...
Social media sites block 4.7 million underage accounts in AustraliaTech giants have blocked 4.7 million accounts under Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s, the country's online safety wat...
Musk denies Grok generated deepfakes of naked minorsElon Musk has denied allegations that xAI's Grok AI assistant created deepfake images of naked minors. He stated Grok refuses illegal reque...
Explained: Why Meta has been accused of coveting hundreds of thousands of underage users on its platformsThis is after Meta executives publicly said in testimony before the US congress that the company’s age-checking processes were effective an...
Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids: reportAccording to reports, Meta said in a statement that the complaint misrepresents its work over the past decade to make the online experience...
At Meta, millions of underage users were an 'open secret,' show court filingThe social media giant "routinely continued to collect" children's personal information, including their locations and email addresses, wit...
Snapchat under scrutiny from UK watchdog over underage usersReuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap Inc had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its platform in...
TikTok, Snapchat growing in popularity among UK children: media regulatorThe study found a slight increase in both apps' popularity in the past year, with TikTok now being used by 53% of children (up from 50%), a...
Snapchat blocks fewer children from its app in Britain compared with TikTok, shows dataAccording to figures recently published by the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Young Children), Snapchat accounted...