Australia’s Social Media Ban on Kids Is Likely an Outlier
A notification on the Instagram app in Sydney. Australia on Dec. 10 imposed a ban on social media for those younger than 16.
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, in our series that looks at themes to watch in 2026, Alexandra S. Levine reports that Australia’s law to ban minors from social media is unlikely to trigger a global wave of similar restrictions sought by child-safety advocates.
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