Australia’s online safety regulator will be armed with new information gathering powers and fines will double for breaches of the social media age ban, amid non-compliance probes into Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube.
The crackdown was announced on Sunday by Communication minister Anika Wells just days after research found around 86 per cent of under-16s reported accessing at least one restricted platform. A bill was introduced late on Monday. …
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