Do Social-Media Bans Benefit Young People? These Data Could Offer Clues

Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues

Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act provides the chance for researchers to analyse the complex relationship between social-media use and mental health in adolescents, but results should be interpreted with caution. Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act provides the chance for researchers to analyse the complex relationship between social-media use and mental health in adolescents, but results should be interpreted with caution.

Study backs age assurance technology to keep teens off social media

The federal government has backed age assurance technology to enforce its upcoming under-16 social media ban.

Social media bans and age restrictions 'can be done'

More than 60 age verification tools have been tested as part of a push to better protect children...

'World-leading reforms': Social media age assurance can be done 'privately, efficiently and effectively', report finds

Govt confident in age assurance tech to ban under-16s on social media, aiming to protect young Aussies from harm.

Age checks clear path

Social Media Age checks clear path for social media ban A government-backed trial has found age verification tech works well enough to enforce Labor’s plan to keep under-16s off social platforms. As Jack Quail explains in The Australian, that paves the way for a December 10 start date, when apps from TikTok to YouTube will be required to block younger users. Read more But there’s a catch, according to Josh Taylor in The Guardian. A government-ba…