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It’s day one for Australia’s world-leading law limiting social media for uner-16s.

I wrote the book on anxious kids. It doesn’t matter if this ban isn’t perfect

The American author of The Anxious Generation writes that parents around the world are cheering on Australia as its pioneering social media law comes into effect today.

  • Jonathan Haidt

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Australia has become the world’s first country to enact a ban on social media for under-16s.

‘Backdoor way to control access’: World reacts to social media ban

As Australia brings in the world’s first social media ban for teenagers, other countries are watching closely and many want to introduce similar measures.

  • Newley Purnell and Nasteho Said
December 10 is the first day of Australia’s teen social media ban.

I tried making new social media accounts as an under-16. Things are still messy

Most apps will block you if you say you’re under 16, but some don’t seem to be doing much to vet users if they lie.

  • Tim Biggs
Patty De Benedetto (left), Eddy Coulson and Jordan Huang, who are all in year 7 and affected by the social media ban.

‘How are we going to stay in contact?’ Teens wake to a social media-free world

Everyone under 16 is now forbidden from using social media platforms. Will it mean less screen time – or creative ways to get around the law?

  • Nicole Precel and Madeleine Heffernan
Ariel De Souza-Bell, 13, is one of at least half a million teens who could find themselves kicked off social media on Wednesday.

‘Prepare for intense emotions’: Teens plot workarounds as social media ban begins

The world’s biggest social media platforms are expected to kick more than half a million Australians off their apps while thousands plot ways to get around the ban.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Brittany Busch
Cristina and her daughter Ariel.

‘Tech bros have stolen my family’: Sydney household debates social media ban

Things get real when Hamish, Cristina, Ariel and Elena De Souza-Bell chat about the social media ban and how it will impact all of them.

  • Kayla Olaya
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eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant. “Our investigations are looking at some pretty confronting content.”

‘People want me to fail’: The woman in charge of enforcing Australia’s social media ban feels the heat

Julie Inman Grant is battling tech giants and High Court challenges while navigating her 13-year-old daughter’s conviction that the ban will “ruin her life”.

  • David Swan
Teen social media ban.

Less than a third of parents will enforce social media ban, new poll finds

Nearly 70 per cent of voters back the world-leading policy, but most are sceptical it can even work.

  • Paul Sakkal
Emilia Rossi with her children, Olympia and Hercule.

Across Melbourne, parents are preparing for the social media ban fallout

For many children, social media is the digital version of meeting up after school and on weekends. With platforms soon to be out of reach, families are facing tough conversations.

  • Liam Mannix
What will life look like for under-16s waking up on December 10? Social media providers subject to the eSafety Commissioner’s new minimum age requirement have already started kicking off users they think are underage.

TikTok is making ‘upsetting’ changes to comply with the social media ban. Here’s how it will work

Some tech giants have already started kicking under-16s off their platforms. For others, it’s only a matter of time. What is consistent among them all is that they don’t agree with Australia’s world-first legislation.

  • Bronte Gossling

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