{"id":1016959,"date":"2026-06-26T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016959"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:40:27","slug":"australia-teen-social-media-ban-has-little-impact-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/australia-teen-social-media-ban-has-little-impact-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia teen social media ban has little impact: research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers&#8217; scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the first evaluations of the world-leading measures. <\/p>\n<p>Australia in December banned under 16s from the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, in a crackdown designed to protect children from online bullying and &#8220;predatory algorithms&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>But there is little evidence to suggest teenagers have turned away from social media as a consequence, a team of Australia-based researchers found in a peer-reviewed study published by the British Medical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers&#8217; scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the first evaluations of the world-leading measures. Australia in December banned under 16s from the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, in a crackdown designed to protect children from online bullying and &#8220;predatory algorithms&#8221;. But there is little evidence to suggest teenagers have turned away from social media as a consequence, a team of Australia-based researchers found in a peer-reviewed study published by the British Medical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016985,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016959\/revisions\/1016985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}