Google, Meta urge Australia to delay bill on social media ban for children

Google and Fb-owner Meta Platforms urged the Australian authorities on Tuesday to delay a invoice that may ban most types of social media for youngsters underneath 16, saying extra time was wanted to evaluate its potential affect.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s center-left authorities desires to cross the invoice, which represents among the hardest controls on youngsters’s social media use imposed by any nation, into regulation by the tip of the parliamentary yr on Thursday.

The invoice was launched in parliament final week and opened for submissions of opinions for under at some point.