{"id":1019410,"date":"2026-07-08T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019410"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:59:30","slug":"australias-teen-social-media-ban-fails-to-clear-first-hurdle-in-age-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/08\/australias-teen-social-media-ban-fails-to-clear-first-hurdle-in-age-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s teen social media ban fails to clear first hurdle in age checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Australia&#8217;s online platforms are stumbling at the very first step in implementing age checks for users, rendering a world-first teen social media ban ineffective, a study by a team that advised the government&#8217;s rollout of the curbs found. <\/p>\n<p>Since December, Australia&#8217;s new social media law has mandated that platforms including Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube bar people under 16 years from having accounts. Operators must take &#8220;reasonable steps&#8221; to comply, and the government has recommended using multiple checks to determine users&#8217; age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: Australia&#8217;s online platforms are stumbling at the very first step in implementing age checks for users, rendering a world-first teen social media ban ineffective, a study by a team that advised the government&#8217;s rollout of the curbs found. Since December, Australia&#8217;s new social media law has mandated that platforms including Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube bar people under 16 years from having accounts. Operators must take &#8220;reasonable steps&#8221; to comply, and the government has recommended using multiple checks to determine users&#8217; age.<\/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-1019410","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\/1019410","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=1019410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019431,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019410\/revisions\/1019431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}