{"id":19561,"date":"2025-07-29T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/as-australias-teen-social-media-ban-looms-heres-how-the-platforms-are-lobbying-for-an-exemption\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:37:15","slug":"as-australias-teen-social-media-ban-looms-heres-how-the-platforms-are-lobbying-for-an-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/as-australias-teen-social-media-ban-looms-heres-how-the-platforms-are-lobbying-for-an-exemption\/","title":{"rendered":"As Australia\u2019s teen social media ban looms, here\u2019s how the platforms are lobbying for an exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat are running ads and events saying their services are safe for children \u2013 with the possibility of a legal challenge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Australian government will imminently announce which social media platforms will be included in the under-16s ban.<\/p>\n<p>The social services minister, Tanya Plibersek, on Monday said the government would not be \u201cbullied out of taking action by any social media giant\u201d. But the tech companies are doing their best to argue that their services should be exempt from the legislation that comes into effect in December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/jul\/29\/social-media-ban-australia-tiktok-snapchat-youtube-meta-instagram-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c8fa52fa9646d1a550ffae5f7a7924b4c5d9d113\/1185_0_3520_2816\/master\/3520.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=479f579e0d3a84f96f5342bb613269cb\" title=\"As Australia\u2019s teen social media ban looms, here\u2019s how the platforms are lobbying for an exemption\" \/>Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat are running ads and events saying their services are safe for children \u2013 with the possibility of a legal challenge<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nThe Australian government will imminently announce which social media platforms will be included in the under-16s ban.<br \/>\nThe social services minister, Tanya Plibersek, on Monday said the government would not be \u201cbullied out of taking action by any social media giant\u201d. But the tech companies are doing their best to argue that their services should be exempt from the legislation that comes into effect in December. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat are running ads and events saying their services are safe for children \u2013 with the possibility of a legal challenge Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian government will imminently announce which social media platforms will be included in the under-16s ban. The social &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/as-australias-teen-social-media-ban-looms-heres-how-the-platforms-are-lobbying-for-an-exemption\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As Australia\u2019s teen social media ban looms, here\u2019s how the platforms are lobbying for an exemption<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}