Meta to force financial advertisers to be verified in bid to prevent celebrity scam ads targeting Australians
Exclusive: Businesses to require financial services licence number to post Facebook ads while individuals will need government-issued ID
‘Child poverty has got a lot worse’: outgoing charity boss lambasts Tory failures and social media giants
Peter Wanless of the NSPCC calls for more preventive action on child poverty, a ban on ‘morally repugnant’ smacking and favours guardrails online rather than bans
Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds
Researchers say parent company Meta is failing to remove explicit images on the social media site
‘His Facebook was a shrine to my face’: the day I caught my catfish
I stumbled on a profile with my picture as the photo. What was this man doing with my identity? I set out to track him down …
Australian-style social media ban for under-16s ‘a retrograde step’, say UK charities
Child safety experts say similar move in Britain would penalise young people for the failings of tech companies
‘Teenage girls are feeling vulnerable’: fears grow over online beauty filters
Studies suggest children are having their self-esteem harmed by filters that ape the effects of cosmetic surgery
How Australia’s tough social media ban compares to laws in other countries
Laws will bar under-16s from accessing social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit and X
Romanian court orders recount of presidential election’s first-round votes
Also, presidential office says officials detected online efforts to influence vote won by little-known far-right candidate
A spy story from Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger gang
The podcast studio behind the Rest Is … universe goes deep on the 1953 Iran coup in The Rest Is Classified. Plus: five of the best expert advice podcasts
Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK
Discussion platform takes fifth place in rankings and is the fastest growing large social media platform in the UK
X trying to block transfer of platform’s InfoWars accounts to the Onion
Social network says it must give permission for accounts to be sold or transferred after sale of rightwing InfoWars
TikTok to block teenagers from beauty filters over mental health concerns
Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up
Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco
Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it
If so many experts oppose a social-media age ban, why is the government intent on rushing it through?
Labor has been at pains to say people won’t need digital ID or to hand over their passport – but there’s nothing in legislation preventing it
Australia should delay social media ban until age-check trial finishes, Google and Meta say
Coalition-backed bill is ‘inconsistent and ineffective’ and should not go ahead until after trial is completed next year, Meta says