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November 18, 2025

Roblox rolls out age-verification features in Australia as gaming platform insists child social media ban should not apply

Online gaming company says voluntary age assurance technology will limit teens and children messaging users outside their own age groups

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September 08, 2025

Big tech not stopping online sharing of child abuse images, eSafety commissioner says, amid new online codes

Measures to protect children from harmful content such as AI chatbots to be implemented at the same time as the under-16s social media ban

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August 19, 2025

Key stakeholders in Australia’s social media age assurance trial frozen out amid media leaks and resignations

Trial’s advisory board may not see the final report until communications minister releases it in the coming weeks

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August 04, 2025

Social media battles and barbs on both sides of Atlantic over UK Online Safety Act

Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims The UK’s

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August 02, 2025

The inside story of the Murdoch editor taking on Donald Trump

Since her arrival at the Wall Street Journal, British editor-in-chief Emma Tucker has shaken up not only her own newsroom but also the White HouseThe...

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July 30, 2025

Albanese says banning children from social media ‘not going to be easy’ as key questions unanswered

Onus on platforms to design simple solutions and there are ‘lots of ways’ tech firms could verify age of users, says communications minister

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