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UK investigates Musk’s X over Grok deepfake concerns

Britain’s media regulator has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over concerns its Grok AI chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its duty to...

Meta removes 544k teen accounts in Australia

12 January 2026 | by Justin Hendry

More than half a million accounts belonging to children under 16 were blocked across Meta platforms in the lead-up to Australia’s world-leading ban on teen social media use. New...

Reddit mounts legal challenge against social media ban

12 December 2025 | by Justin Hendry

Reddit has launched a High Court bid to overturn Australia’s teen social media ban on privacy and free speech grounds, just days after the world-first laws took effect on...

Flying the flag via Australia’s under-16 social media ban

11 December 2025 | by James Riley

From Anderson Cooper on CNN to Alastair Campbell on The Rest is Politics podcast, global media coverage of the Australian under-16 social media ban has really been quite something....

Labor senators rejects 11th hour plea to delay social media ban

27 November 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

The Albanese government is resisting a Senate inquiry’s recommendation to delay the teen social media ban by six months to iron out compliance issues and educate young people on...

Teens ask High Court to block social media ban

27 November 2025 | by Christine Chen

A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, two weeks before the world-first law is set to...

Meta buried ‘causal’ evidence of social media harm, court filings allege

23 November 2025 | by Jeff Horwitz

Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings...

Amazon’s Twitch added to Aussie social media ban

21 November 2025 | by David Allen

Twitch, the live-streaming platform owned by Amazon, has been added to Australia’s world-first social media age ban, the eSafety Commission has announced, leaving the tech company just 19 days...

‘On them to deliver’: Social media warned a month out from ban

10 November 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

One month out from Australia’s world-first social media ban, the government insists platform companies have few excuses for not complying after a year-long lead time, but also increasingly acknowledges...

OpenAI in eSafety’s crosshairs for teen social media ban

5 November 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

US tech giant OpenAI has been asked to self-assess for Australia’s social media ban, as Reddit and streaming site Kick were formally targeted and told to head off a...

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