Meta has deleted over 544,000 accounts belonging to under-16s in Australia following the implementation of the country's landmark social media ban. Despite this large-scale removal, Meta argues that the crackdown is failing its objectives and is calling for age verification to be handled at the app store level by Apple and Google instead.
The Australian government has officially passed legislation to ban children under the age of 16 from using social media platforms. The world-first law mandates that companies like Meta, TikTok, and X implement robust age-verification systems, with the threat of multi-million dollar fines for non-compliance as the country moves toward a stricter digital environment.


