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Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 next week with fines up to $33 million - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports

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Newest development Dec 4, 2025 · 3 reportsWhich apps are under-16s hoping will get around Australia’s social media ban? These are the platforms they’re migrating to

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Social media platforms must report monthly how many children’s accounts they close once Australia begins enforcing its 16-year age limit next week, a

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    Which apps are under-16s hoping will get around Australia’s social media ban? These are the platforms they’re migrating to

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  1. Local News 8

    What happens when you kick millions of teens off social media? Australia’s about to find out (opens Local News 8)

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    By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — It’s August, and a show of hands in an auditorium filled with 300 students at All Saints Anglican School in Australia shows that few of the Grade 9 and 10 students sitting in plush red seats had heard of the country’s impending ban on social media,…

  2. Digital Journal

    Australia ban offers test on social media harm (opens Digital Journal)

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    Australia's under-16 social media ban will make the nation a real-life laboratory on how best to tackle the technology's impact on young people.

  3. Digital Journal

    How Australia plans to ban under-16s from social media (opens Digital Journal)

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    Australia will soon ban under-16s from the likes of Facebook and TikTok.

  4. WSVN Miami

    Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 next week with fines up to $33 million - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports (opens WSVN Miami)

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    MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Social media platforms must report monthly how many children’s accounts they close once Australia begins enforcing its 16-year age limit next week, a

  5. WHEC Rochester

    Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 next week with fines up to $33 million (opens WHEC Rochester)

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    Australia is set to enforce its age limit for social media accounts starting next week, and the platforms must provide monthly reports on how many children's accounts they have closed or face fines. Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said Wednesday the platforms would face fines of up to…

  6. The Guardian

    Australia social media ban: when is it, how will it work and what apps are being banned for under-16s? (opens The Guardian)

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    Will the ban be delayed or postponed, and how will age verification work? Here’s everything you need to know

  7. Digital Journal

    YouTube says children to be 'less safe' under Australia social media ban (opens Digital Journal)

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    Video streaming giant YouTube attacked Australia's looming social media ban for under-16s.

  8. NBC News

    YouTube says it will comply with Australia's teen social media ban (opens NBC News)

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    Google’s YouTube shared a “disappointing update” to millions of Australian users and content creators on Wednesday, saying it will comply with a world-first teen social media ban by locking out users aged under 16 from their accounts within days.

  9. The Guardian

    Which apps are under-16s hoping will get around Australia’s social media ban? These are the platforms they’re migrating to (opens The Guardian)

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    As Meta begins deleting accounts and the deadline looms, children have already begun to flock to apps not covered by the ban

  10. Al Jazeera

    Meta starts blocking teens in Australia under social media ban (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Australia’s world-first ban requires 10 major online platforms to block users aged 16.

  11. Fortune

    Australia wants to end the era of kids on social media with international ban hailed as 'first domino' in global movement (opens Fortune)

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    If Meta, Google, and others can't figure out how to block accounts of users under 16 years old, they'll be fined $33 million per breach.

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