{"id":19589,"date":"2025-07-31T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/how-will-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-be-enforced-and-which-platforms-will-be-exempt\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:37:18","slug":"how-will-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-be-enforced-and-which-platforms-will-be-exempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/how-will-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-be-enforced-and-which-platforms-will-be-exempt\/","title":{"rendered":"How will Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban be enforced, and which platforms will be exempt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No prescribed avenue for social media companies to check users\u2019 ages, but options include facial estimation technology and matching photos with ID<\/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>Australians using a range of social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and X will need to have their age checked to ensure they\u2019re 16 or older when the social media ban comes into effect from early December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\"><sub>Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/01\/how-australia-under-16s-social-media-ban-enforced-tiktok-instagram-facebook-exempt-platforms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/60ad42ef77f8a23fd57dc1c0d77e335c166a523c\/594_117_1964_1571\/master\/1964.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2767f4aabc37dcb6c3f7295ba24c9e42\" title=\"How will Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban be enforced, and which platforms will be exempt?\" \/>No prescribed avenue for social media companies to check users\u2019 ages, but options include facial estimation technology and matching photos with ID<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nAustralians using a range of social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and X will need to have their age checked to ensure they\u2019re 16 or older when the social media ban comes into effect from early December.<br \/>\nSign up: AU Breaking News email Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No prescribed avenue for social media companies to check users\u2019 ages, but options include facial estimation technology and matching photos with ID Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australians using a range of social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and X will need to have their age checked &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/how-will-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-be-enforced-and-which-platforms-will-be-exempt\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How will Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban be enforced, and which platforms will be exempt?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19590,"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\/19589"}],"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=19589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}