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Meta’s US settlement raises new questions in Australia

Meta’s move to restrict teenagers’ use of social media in the US demonstrates that the companies have tools to better protect young people online, Australian regulators said on Thursday,...

Meta to pay $25bn to settle lawsuits on social media addiction

27 August 2026 | by Diana Novak Jones

Meta Platforms will pay up to US$18 billion ($25 billion) over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly all...

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri on the stand at Meta addiction trial

26 August 2026 | by Greg Bensinger

Instagram’s top executive Adam Mosseri has taken the witness stand to testify in a trial over whether Meta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children without proper regard...

Meta’s landmark US trial on child online addiction begins

19 August 2026 | by Diana Novak Jones

Meta Platforms rejected accusations by US states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms in pursuit of profit, at the start of a...

Meta purges another 200k teen accounts as crackdown looms

13 August 2026 | by Justin Hendry

Meta has taken down a further 200,000 accounts suspected of belonging to Australians under 16 and promised more action, as it stares down regulatory action and higher fines for...

Most Aussie teens still on social media after ban, study finds

31 July 2026 | by Christine Chen and Byron Kaye

More than 8 in 10 Australian teenagers were still using social media three months after the government’s landmark ban on the platforms for under-16s took effect because the tech...

Health firms breached Privacy Act with online tracking

24 June 2026 | by David Allen

Two healthcare services breached privacy laws handing over “incredibly intimate details” of millions of people accessing their websites to Meta, TikTok and Google for years, the privacy commissioner has...

Meta lobbies for legal immunity from child-harm lawsuits

21 June 2026 | by Jody Godoy

Meta Platforms has lobbied the US Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young...

Britain the next to follow Australia on social media

15 June 2026 | by Paul Sandle and Kate Holton

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would ban social media sites for the under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms, in some of the most far-reaching...

Meta accuses Australia of breaching FTA, invokes US ‘trade action’

4 June 2026 | by Byron Kaye

Meta accused Australia of violating a free trade agreement with the US by proposing a new tax on certain tech giants which do not strike licensing deals with local...

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