Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said there were still too many children on social media and tech firms were not doing enough to comply with...

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...

An Australian federal court upheld on Thursday a fine against Elon Musk's X for failing to comply with child internet safety regulations, c...

Despite Australia’s recent legislation prohibiting social media access for those under 16, user habits remain largely unchanged, as indicat...

Australia's teen social media ban faces enforcement challenges due to platforms' weak application of available age-checking tools, not tech...

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...

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's internet watchdog criticises social media giants. These firms allegedly ignore online child sex abuse. YouTube and Apple are un...

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

Elon Musk's X was fined by an Australian court for failing to cooperate with a regulator's request for information about its anti-child-abu...

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

X challenges Australian regulator's order on posts about Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel's stabbing. Boy charged with terrorism at church. eSafety...

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

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...

The Online Safety Bill will also require internet-service companies to provide identity and contract information about abusers on their pla...