{"id":49085,"date":"2026-03-22T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/did-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-work\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:10:55","slug":"did-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/did-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Australia&#8217;s under-16s social media ban work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC spoke to Australian teenagers about the under-16s social media ban, three months since the law came into force on 10 December 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Under the law, social media companies must take &#8220;reasonable steps&#8221; to keep kids off their platforms, and face fines off up to A$49.5m (\u00a324.5m) if they fail to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Children and parents are not punished for infringing the ban. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">According to the Australian government, 4.7 million under-16 accounts were deactivated, removed or restricted within the first few days of the ban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cq8g9y5x1llo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC spoke to Australian teenagers about the under-16s social media ban, three months since the law came into force on 10 December 2025. Under the law, social media companies must take &#8220;reasonable steps&#8221; to keep kids off their platforms, and face fines off up to A$49.5m (\u00a324.5m) if they fail to do so. Children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1439,546,2640,153,6615,81],"class_list":["post-49085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australias","tag-ban","tag-media","tag-social","tag-under16s","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49087,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49085\/revisions\/49087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}