The Prime Minister has promised the UK’s ban on social media for under-16s will be like ‘Australia plus’.
But six months after the world’s first ever such scheme was launched Down Under, reviews of its success are mixed.
Under Australia’s new rules, children are banned from 10 major platforms – TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, X, Threads, Snapchat, Twitch and Kick.
It led to nearly five million social media accounts being deactivated – but many youngsters reported still being able to gain access.
‘I wasn’t banned and none of my friends were,’ Australian schoolgirl Hannah Chalmers, 15, told the BBC in March. Another said
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