Children under the age of 16 in Australia are no longer allowed to have social media accounts. The Australian government says ...

For years, governments have relied largely on platform-led safety tools to manage children’s use of social media. That ...

It took 13-year-old Isobel less than five minutes to outsmart Australia's "world-leading" social media ban for children. A notification from Snapchat, one of the ten platforms affected, had lit up her ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government announced YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16-years-old from December, reversing a ...

Children in Australia under the age of 16 are now legally prevented from using 10 social media apps. This is the first law of its kind in the world. Australian officials admit implementation would be ...

LOS ANGELES -- Imagine telling your teenage child that he or she couldn't use social media anymore. As terrifying as that sounds, Australia is doing it and many say the U.S. should do the same.

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of ...

After decades working in the private tech industry, Julia Inman Grant now finds herself on the other side.

Kids in Australia routinely use social media apps and can bypass the age limit restrictions set by these platforms, suggests a report by the country’s online safety regulator on Thursday. eSafety’s ...