Australia has successfully banned social media for children under 16. Nearly 4.7 million accounts have been removed since the law took effe...

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...

California-based Reddit Inc.'s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Pr...

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

Australia will block under-16s from using social media, with major platforms already shutting young users out. The eSafety Commissioner say...

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

The centre-left Labor government of Anthony Albanese has previously said it would give YouTube a waiver, citing the platform's use for educ...

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 ...

Australian regulator pressures social media platforms to combat terrorism content, hate speech, and handle fines, challenging platforms lik...

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...

Last month, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant slapped an Aus$610,500 (US$388,000) fine on the company regarding content depicting chil...

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

The demand builds on a campaign by the eSafety Commissioner to make the website more accountable after Musk, one of the world's richest peo...

Australia's e-safety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has warned Twitter that it has 28 days to demonstrate a serious attempt to tackle onl...

The action by the country's e-safety commissioner keeps a spotlight on the anti-exploitation practices at Twitter under the ownership of bi...