Survey of 1,050 Australian teens: ~60% said they retained access to social media accounts after ban

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TLDR

  • Most Australian teenagers surveyed kept their social media access despite the country’s ban on under-16s.

Key Facts

  • A survey of 1,050 Australian teens found roughly 60% retained access to social media accounts after the ban.
  • Two-thirds of those surveyed said platforms took no action to remove their accounts.
  • A 14-year-old in New South Wales described circumventing restrictions, as reported by The Washington Post in December 2025.

Why It Matters

  • Platform inaction appears to be the primary gap: most teens kept accounts not through technical workarounds but because they were never removed.
  • The data puts pressure on platforms, not just teenagers, to enforce the ban.

Sasha Rogelberg / Fortune · 2026-04-25 · Read the original