{"id":574797,"date":"2026-03-30T19:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574797\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:46:19","slug":"is-australias-teen-social-media-ban-going-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574797\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Australia&#8217;s teen social media ban going off the rails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three months into Australia\u2019s teen social media ban, the federal government wants to put a head on a spike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communications Minister Anika Wells has gone from acknowledging the \u201cmeaningful efforts\u201d being taken by social media companies to restrict access for Australians under the age of 16, to pledging to hold them accountable<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government\u2019s sudden about-face reflects the immense pressure that it is under to keep its \u201cworld-first\u201d ban from going off the rails.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite stepping up the rhetoric, Crikey understands there are no imminent plans to use powers to fine companies up to $49.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three months into Australia\u2019s teen social media ban, the federal government wants to put a head on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[123796,31859,43,31860,1333,44,84,32847,105,127043,101,41,39,42,40,3973],"class_list":["post-574797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-anika-wells","tag-esafety","tag-headlines","tag-julie-inman-grant","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-snapchat","tag-technology","tag-teen-social-media-ban","tag-tiktok","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}