{"id":979395,"date":"2025-12-10T09:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979395"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:49:32","slug":"meta-says-australia-pushing-teens-to-less-regulated-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/10\/meta-says-australia-pushing-teens-to-less-regulated-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta says Australia pushing teens to &#8216;less regulated&#8217; platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Meta said Wednesday Australia&#8217;s ban on social media for under-16s is sending youngsters to less regulated platforms, making them less safe. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve consistently raised concerns that this poorly developed law could push teens to less regulated platforms or apps. We&#8217;re now seeing those concerns become reality,&#8221; the US company said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Lesser known chat and image sharing apps Lemon8 and yope, which are not currently listed in the social media ban, have shot up the download charts in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Meta said Wednesday Australia&#8217;s ban on social media for under-16s is sending youngsters to less regulated platforms, making them less safe. &#8220;We&#8217;ve consistently raised concerns that this poorly developed law could push teens to less regulated platforms or apps. We&#8217;re now seeing those concerns become reality,&#8221; the US company said in a statement. Lesser known chat and image sharing apps Lemon8 and yope, which are not currently listed in the social media ban, have shot up the download charts in Australia.<\/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-979395","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\/979395","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=979395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}