The new legislation — passed Thursday, Nov. 28 — gives platforms including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok a year to begin enforcing the age limit Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Bryce Corbett road tests Australia Zoo for kids and tries his hand at beach four-wheel driving in Noosa. The hiss of wet sand under tyres, the floating sensation as you cruise just along the water’s ...

Age assurance, an umbrella term that refers to technologies for verifying, estimating, or inferring an internet user’s age, is being thrust into the global spotlight thanks to a blanket ban on social ...

Australia’s government has begun a public education campaign with tips on how to wean children off social media ahead of a ...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions — and so is the path to a potential surveillance state. After losing its high-profile case in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last ...

Thwarting the ban could become normal and undermine the policy’s effectiveness, according to a research group that conducted ...

Australia's government approved a law that would ban social media for kids under 16. The legislation puts the onus on tech companies to keep children off their platforms. But how exactly companies are ...

At this point, the negative impacts of social media on kids, teens, and young adults (to say nothing of its impacts on society at large) are pretty well established, and some experts on the matter ...

"Social media is doing harm to our kids and I'm calling time on it," says Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanse.

Australia has launched a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign that depicts its world-first ban on social media for teenagers as "for the good of our kids" ahead of its December start date.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first ...