{"id":1025372,"date":"2026-08-01T07:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025372"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:19:22","slug":"most-australian-teens-still-on-social-media-three-months-after-under-16-ban-began-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/most-australian-teens-still-on-social-media-three-months-after-under-16-ban-began-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Australian teens still on social media three months after under-16 ban began, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 8 in 10 Australian teenagers were still using social media three months after the government&#8217;s \u200blandmark ban on the platforms for under-16s \u200btook effect because the tech firms failed to implement effective age checks, the country&#8217;s \u200binternet regulator has found. <\/p>\n<p>In a study published on Friday, eSafety also found most children aged between 10 and 15 were using social media just as frequently in March as they had before the ban came into force on December 10 last year, while parental awareness \u200cof their habits \u2060decreased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 8 in 10 Australian teenagers were still using social media three months after the government&#8217;s \u200blandmark ban on the platforms for under-16s \u200btook effect because the tech firms failed to implement effective age checks, the country&#8217;s \u200binternet regulator has found. In a study published on Friday, eSafety also found most children aged between 10 and 15 were using social media just as frequently in March as they had before the ban came into force on December 10 last year, while parental awareness \u200cof their habits \u2060decreased.<\/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-1025372","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\/1025372","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=1025372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025397,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025372\/revisions\/1025397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}