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Australian PM issues warning over under-16s social media ban
Australia's prime minister has warned that implementing the country's new social media ban for children under 16 – which came into force on Wednesday - will be difficult.
Parents across Australia are reported to have found their children distraught after discovering they had been shut out of online platforms. Some children are said to be fooling age estimation technology by drawing on fake facial hair or using parents and older siblings to dodge the implementation of the ban.
From Wednesday, a host of social media sites face fines of up to $49.5m (£25m) if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the accounts of the banned teenagers. While Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the move as "the day when Australian families are taking back power from these big tech companies.
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