Did Australia’s under-16s social media ban work?
The BBC spoke to Australian teenagers about the under-16s social media ban, three months since the law came into force on 10 December 2025. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cq8g9y5x1llo
TikTok and Meta risked safety to win algorithm arms race, whistleblowers say
Social media giants made decisions which allowed more harmful content on people’s feeds, after internal research into their algorithms showed how outrage fuelled engagement, whistleblowers told the BBC. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj9kgxqjwjo
TikTok to Resume Local Sponsorships After Deal to Stay in Canada
The big winners could be the Toronto Film Festival, the Junos and other marquee Canadian cultural events after funding from TikTok Canada was pulled as Ottawa investigated Chinese parent ByteDance over national security concerns. Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/tiktok-canadian-sponsorships-deal-1236528718/
We have more privacy controls yet less privacy than ever
Woodward argues that while caring about privacy is often framed as “having something to hide”, it is in his view “about having something to protect: freedom of thought, experimentation, dissent and personal development without permanent surveillance”. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gj39zk1k0o
Indonesia to ban social media and other online platforms for under 16s
Indonesia says it will ban social media and other popular online platforms for children under 16, becoming the latest country to introduce restrictions aimed at protecting young people from online abuse. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg50168ddgo
Why Elon Musk’s Grok is kicking up a storm in India
Indians bombarded Grok with everything – cricket gossip, political rants, Bollywood drama – and the bot took it all on, unapologetically and with some style. The chatbot has just recently become an “unfiltered and unhinged” digital sensation in India, as … Continued