‘Serious concerns’: X seeks delay to social media ban


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Controversial social media platform X is seeking an eleventh-hour delay to Australia’s social media age ban, claiming it could violate human rights and the company has not had enough time to prepare age assurance technologies.

The Elon Musk-owned platform this week told lawmakers it was not given a chance to provide feedback on the ‘reasonable steps’ platforms must take to keep under-16-year-olds of X and it needs more time to …

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