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Communications Minister Anika Wells listens to the prime minister speak about the social media ban.

Australia social media ban LIVE updates: PM lauds decision as children under 16 barred from social media in world-first; Wells says more than 200,000 TikTok accounts deactivated

Australia’s social media ban comes into effect today, with children under 16 barred from some of the most popular social media apps in the world. Follow our live coverage.

  • Brittany Busch, Bronte Gossling and Ashleigh McMillan

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Many TikTok users claiming to be under the age of 16 and living in Australia have taken to the age-restricted platform to brag about bypassing the social media ban.

‘It didn’t work bro I’m still here’: Kids brag as they beat social media ban

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spent the morning speaking about Australia’s world-first legislation being a success while teens were flooding his social media comments with a different story.

  • Bronte Gossling
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Kirribilli House on Wednesday.

Teens still on social media warned that their day will come

The prime minister declared victory during a formal address in Sydney, heralding the ban as one of Australia’s greatest ever reforms.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos, David Swan and Kayla Olaya
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
Senate estimates

‘Conflict bait’: How MPs are turning tedious hearings into social media gold

Senators are seeing massive spikes in social media views and followers as they mimic the combative style of US congresspeople.

  • Nick Newling
Sydney students react to social media ban.

‘No one wants it’: Sydney teens unite against social media ban

Teenagers across Sydney have revealed what they think about the impending social media ban.

  • Kayla Olaya
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Anika Wells is setting expectations for day one of the government’s social media ban.

As teens flee to new apps to avoid social media ban, Wells says she’ll ban those too

Children have already started migrating to apps not yet caught up in the teen social media ban, but Communications Minister Anika Wells said she wouldn’t hesitate to add more platforms to the list.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
The Digital Freedom Project has launched a High Court challenge to the government’s under-16 social media ban.

High Court challengers of teen social media ban want Musk, Google to fund case

A group run by a Libertarian NSW MP has put forward two teenagers to act as plaintiffs in a bid to stop the teen social media ban from beginning next month.

  • Brittany Busch
Messages Meta will send to account holders it suspects are under 16 before the social media ban starts on December 10.

Shut it down: The sites already policing the world’s first social media ban

New underage users on Facebook and Instagram will be banned, and children attempting to alter their age before December 10 will have to verify their age.

  • Nick Newling

‘Idk what to do’: Teens share their thoughts after test-driving the social-media ban

As Australia counts down to its world-first social media ban for under-16s on December 10, four teens report back from a trial five-day break from the apps.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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