Banning children under 16 from using social media. On the surface it sounds fine but as you dig deeper, things get murky.

Australia approved on Thursday a social media ban for children aged under 16 after an emotive debate that has gripped the nation, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the world with one of ...

Jackie Hallan, a director at the youth mental health service ReachOut, opposed the ban. She said 73% of young people across Australia accessing mental health support did so through social media.

Six months have passed since Australia's 'world-first' social media minimum age law was passed. Only now are we going to hear the nitty-gritty of what tech companies will need to do.

Social media companies say that bullying has always ... Sugarman compares the Australian ban to American Prohibition in the 1920s, which some studies suggest actually increased alcohol consumption ...

Video-sharing app TikTok fired its first post-election shot at the federal government last week, paying tens of thousands of dollars for four-and-a-half pages of advertising in the Nine-owned ...

Unless you work in public policy, you may not be aware of the many discussions happening about protecting Australian kids on ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the ...

TikTok is pushing the app’s benefits for teens into as many faces as it can as the under-16 social media ban looms at the end ...