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29 November 2024

  • Children sitting on windowsill and using their smartphones

    Australian-style social media ban for under-16s ‘a retrograde step’, say UK charities

    Child safety experts say similar move in Britain would penalise young people for the failings of tech companies
  • Images of smartphones showing a young woman's face with the beauty filters applied

    ‘Teenage girls are feeling vulnerable’: fears grow over online beauty filters

    Studies suggest children are having their self-esteem harmed by filters that ape the effects of cosmetic surgery
  • Young people on their phones in Melbourne, Australia

    How Australia’s tough social media ban compares to laws in other countries

    Laws will bar under-16s from accessing social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit and X

28 November 2024

  • Which platforms will be affected and how those platforms will determine users are the age they say they are?

    1:19

    Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is now law. There’s plenty we still don’t know – video

  • A woman puts her ballot into a box

    Romanian court orders recount of presidential election’s first-round votes

  • August 19, 1953: a royalist tank moves into the courtyard of Tehran Radio during the Iran coup.

    Best podcasts of the week
    A spy story from Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger gang

  • A person loading Reddit on their phone in front of a Reddit sign in the background

    Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK

27 November 2024

  • Elon Musk

    X trying to block transfer of platform’s InfoWars accounts to the Onion

  • Independent Member for Clark Andrew Wilkie

    Why I’ve changed my mind about the social media bill

    Andrew Wilkie

26 November 2024

  • The TikTok app icon on a mobile phone screen.

    TikTok to block teenagers from beauty filters over mental health concerns

  • Young person looking at social media apps, including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp, on a smartphone

    Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco

  • Australian communications minister Michelle Rowland

    Australians won’t have to hand over ID when using social media, communications minister vows

  • Social media apps on a phone.

    If so many experts oppose a social-media age ban, why is the government intent on rushing it through?

25 November 2024

  • Children sitting on windowsill immersed in their mobile phones

    Australia should delay social media ban until age-check trial finishes, Google and Meta say

    Coalition-backed bill is ‘inconsistent and ineffective’ and should not go ahead until after trial is completed next year, Meta says
  • A table of high school students all holding multiple digital devices such as phones and tablets

    The Conversation
    Banning under-16s from social media may be unconstitutional – and ripe for high court challenge

    Sarah Joseph for the Conversation
    If the Albanese government’s bill violates the implied freedom of political communication in the constitution, it will be invalid

    • ‘You get desensitised to it’: how social media fuels fear of violence

    • Violence on social media making teenagers afraid to go out, study finds

    • Greens and One Nation accuse Albanese of trying to ‘ram’ social media ban through parliament

24 November 2024

  • Tim Adams

    Notebook
    For now, let’s revel in Bluesky’s promised land and kid ourselves it’ll never get like X

    Tim Adams
    Watching the numbers migrate from Elon Musk’s toxic platform is addictive, but the best social media is finite

23 November 2024

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways…

    John Naughton
    The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media
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