Tag: Social Media

No barriers, no guarantees: Age assurance test results are in

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Age assurance technologies are not “guaranteed to be effective” in all applications, with usability among the main issues, an independent trial has found as the deadline for Australia’s social...

Macron to push ban on social media for under-15s

Posted on   |  by Makini Brice
French President Emmanuel Macron will push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the age of 15 after a fatal stabbing at a school in...

SA moves on social media ‘posting and boasting’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
South Australians will face jail terms of up to two years for sharing violent or illegal acts on social media under laws introduced to state parliament on Thursday to...

Enforcing the social media age ban will cost $50m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government will spend more than $50 million enforcing Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s over the next four years, as it steps up its oversight of...

Social media platforms are throttling access to news

Posted on   |  by Cameron McTernan
Just days out from the United States presidential election last month, X (formerly Twitter) suddenly crippled the ability of many major media and political organisations to reach audiences on...

Australia gets world-first social media age ban

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the bill passing in the last hour of Parliament for the...