{"id":306598,"date":"2026-10-20T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=306598"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:22:28","slug":"australia-will-sue-facebook-instagram-tiktok-snapchat-and-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/306598\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia will sue Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said the government plans to take legal action against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube for failing to comply with the country&rsquo;s ban on social media use by children under 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-10-20\/australia-to-sue-facebook-tiktok-for-alleged-breaches-of-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The legal action follows the publication of an investigation into possible violations of the ban by social media platforms in July. The findings showed that most children under 16 could still access social media because the platforms had not put adequate age-verification measures in place.<\/p>\n<p>Australia became the first country in the world to introduce a legal ban on social media use by children under 16. The law, which came into effect in December 2025, required social media platforms to remove accounts belonging to underage users and introduce age-verification measures.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&rsquo;s approach has since become a model for many other countries that have either introduced similar restrictions or are working to implement them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said the government plans to take legal action against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube for failing to comply with the country&rsquo;s ban on social media use by children under 16, Bloomberg reports. The legal action follows the publication of an investigation into possible violations of the ban by social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":306593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306599,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306598\/revisions\/306599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}