Teenagers on social media before ban are still using it, data shows

Three months into Australia’s world-first teen social media ban, new data suggests that young Australians’ use of social media has only dropped modestly.

While TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat all saw a decrease in use by Australians aged 10-15, the majority of teens who had been using the social media platforms pre-ban remained on the services afterwards.

That’s according to a new snapshot of data provided to Crikey by parental monitoring company Qustodio. This adds to early evidence suggesting that there’s widespread circumvention of the government’s flagship tech policy.