{"id":49748,"date":"2026-04-01T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/social-media-firms-must-better-enforce-australia-under-16-ban-watchdog-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:08:51","slug":"social-media-firms-must-better-enforce-australia-under-16-ban-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/social-media-firms-must-better-enforce-australia-under-16-ban-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media firms must better enforce Australia under-16 ban, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">While Australia&#8217;s ban was brought in with huge fanfare, it is widely acknowledged that many under-16s continue to use the 10 platforms covered by the law: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, and streaming platforms Kick and Twitch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy4181pkxl2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Australia&#8217;s ban was brought in with huge fanfare, it is widely acknowledged that many under-16s continue to use the 10 platforms covered by the law: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, and streaming platforms Kick and Twitch. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[409,546,14434,230,2640,153,7151,2618],"class_list":["post-49748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australia","tag-ban","tag-enforce","tag-firms","tag-media","tag-social","tag-under16","tag-watchdog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49748","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=49748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49750,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49748\/revisions\/49750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}