Australian online platforms are failing initial age checks for a teen social media ban. Studies show most under-16s can still access platfo...

Since December, Australia's new social media law has mandated that platforms including Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube bar people under 16 ...

Australia is doubling penalties for tech firms failing to enforce its child social media ban, as evidence shows limited impact on teen usag...

Australia is strengthening laws to ban social media for under-16s, despite initial challenges in enforcement. Prime Minister Albanese vows ...

Australia's social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers' scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the fi...

The 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 has begun enforcing new rules. Children under 16 are now banned from social media accounts. Platforms must implement age verificat...

Meta Platforms is enhancing safety for young users. New protections for teen accounts are coming to 27 European Union nations and Facebook ...

Alarming incidents of very young children riding two-wheelers in traffic have sparked outrage. One case showed a child under ten precarious...

Tech giants have blocked 4.7 million accounts under Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s, the country's online safety wat...

Elon Musk has denied allegations that xAI's Grok AI assistant created deepfake images of naked minors. He stated Grok refuses illegal reque...

This is after Meta executives publicly said in testimony before the US congress that the company’s age-checking processes were effective an...

According to reports, Meta said in a statement that the complaint misrepresents its work over the past decade to make the online experience...

The social media giant "routinely continued to collect" children's personal information, including their locations and email addresses, wit...

Reuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap Inc had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its platform in...

The 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...

According to figures recently published by the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Young Children), Snapchat accounted...