{"id":306949,"date":"2025-12-09T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306949\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:02:07","slug":"australias-world-first-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-comes-into-effect-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306949\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s world-first social media ban for under-16s comes into effect &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Kick, Twitch &#8211; let&#8217;s look at the affected platformspublished at 12:32 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:32 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A close-up image of a phone screen with different social media apps on the screen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e9539c63-499e-464a-8a0c-e1cbebf8ffdf.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3500\" height=\"1968\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From midnight in Sydney (13:00 GMT), new legislation will ban children under the age of 16 from having certain social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Platforms falling within the legislation include Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit and streaming platforms Kick and Twitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, other sites such as YouTube Kids, Google Classroom and messaging apps like WhatsApp will still be available for young children to use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the role of social media companies to enforce the ban &#8211; and fines will be issued for those who breach the new law by not taking &#8220;reasonable steps&#8221; to ensure children can&#8217;t access the sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian government has said it will keep the list of affected platforms under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Kick, Twitch &#8211; let&#8217;s look at the affected platformspublished at 12:32 GMT 12:32 GMT Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-306949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}