Australia Bans Teenagers Under the Age of Sixteen from Social Media

What Happened?

Beginning December 10, 2025, individuals under the age of sixteen in Australia will be banned from using social media, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Those under the age of sixteen will not be able to set up new social media accounts, and previously existing accounts belonging to those individuals must be deactivated. Those under sixteen in Australia will still be able to view content online from platforms that do not require an account.

According to a study conducted by the Australian government, ninety-six percent of people aged ten through fifteen used social media, and seventy percent of them had been exposed to harmful content, with over half saying they had been the victim of cyber-bullying.

Why it Matters

Australia is now the first country to impose a ban on social media for people under the age of sixteen, and it is likely many other countries will be watching to see whether Australia’s approach to social media will work. Significantly, children and parents will not be punished for violating the law. Instead, social media companies will face hefty fines for serious or repeated violations.

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In response to the new law, several social media companies are already taking action to comply. Meta, which is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, said it would begin deactivating accounts for under sixteens on December 4, 2025. Other platforms, such as Snapchat, have said they intend to provide potential users with age verification mechanisms to comply with the new law. Thus far, no social media platforms have challenged the law in court.

AI platforms are not covered under the new law, and data sites are also exempt. Some Australian teens were reportedly setting up fictitious profiles or plan to rely on Virtual Private Networks to evade the law. Australia’s Minister of Communication Annika Wells admitted ‘the new law will not be perfect.’ A similar law in the United States in Utah was struck down in court as unconstitutional. 

Because social media is relatively new, data on the long-term impact of social media usage on teenagers or adolescents remains elusive. An entire generation of kids has grown up using social media with unknown potential effects on their mental health and physical well-being. Despite the risks, social media remains popular with adolescents, and in recent months is believed to have contributed to government collapses in several countries due to popular anger against corruption.

How it Affects You

If the Australian law leads to an improvement in mental health or quality of life for teenagers due to restricted social media use, other countries may follow suit. As one example, Britain already has a similar but more limited law governing social media use. But if the law is circumvented so often as to render it practically useless, Australia’s experiment may be the last such attempt to control access to social media. 

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