Australia has ordered major social platforms to report how many under-16 accounts they have removed under its new child-access ban. Compani...

Tech companies including WhatsApp and Reddit as well as streaming giant Twitch and gaming firm Roblox could be among more than a dozen site...

Australia has been a leader in global efforts to prevent internet harm, but current legislation offers almost no details on how the ban wil...

The e-Safety Commission in March 2024 sought responses from social media platforms YouTube, X and Facebook to Telegram and Reddit, and blam...

Australia's federal government has released the final report of a review led by experienced public servant Delia Rickard, more than three m...

Even a 2023 recommendation by the U.S. surgeon general to put health warnings on social media, blaming it for what he called a teenage ment...

Australia has enacted a comprehensive ban on social media access for children under 16, aiming to protect their mental health and well-bein...

Australia's online watchdog on Wednesday dropped a legal effort to force Elon Musk's X to remove posts depicting the violent stabbing of a ...

The Joint Counter-Terrorism Team, which includes federal and state police as well as the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the...

Elon Musk said Tuesday his social media platform X will appeal against an Australian injunction forcing it to take down videos of a church ...

Social media's impact on youth mental health is a concern worldwide. Studies show mental health crisis among young people. The rise in psyc...

The country's eSafety regulator announced Tuesday that it had issued legal notices to Google, Meta, X, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit requir...

X Corp., the owner of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has slashed its global trust and safety staff by 30% including a...

Australia's online safety watchdog said it is being taken to court by Elon Musk's X in a fight over the platform's failure to outline how i...

An Australian regulatory authority has levied a penalty of A$610,500 (roughly $386,000) against X, the social media platform owned by Elon ...

The e-Safety Commission fined X, the platform Musk rebranded from Twitter, saying it failed to respond to questions including how long it t...

In most countries the regulatory paradigm has come from the print and other forms of traditional media, and has been driven by demands for ...