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Australian federal Minister for Communications, overseeing online safety policy including age-verification rules and platform duty-of-care laws.
A judge signed off on the payout, but the enforceable part is a list of product defaults only a parent can undo. Meta's rivals had the terms written for them.
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The Trump administration used Australia's own public consultation to ask that American platforms be exempted from the proposed under-18 duty of care, a request that lands while the exposure draft is still being written.
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A year after promoting the under-16 social media ban at the UN, Anthony Albanese is legislating a digital duty of care and an algorithm opt-out. The enforcement that has changed Meta's products so far came from Europe and the US.
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Facebook, Instagram and TikTok would have to ask each Australian whether their default feed is algorithmic or friends-only. Approved researchers would get sanctioned fake accounts to test what the systems actually serve.
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Australia's draft Digital Duty of Care Bill threatens fines up to A$109 million if platforms fail to offer the choice, and it defines the alternative as friends and follows, so whether the opt-out holds depends on how good that feed turns out to be.
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The News Bargaining Incentive taxes advertising revenue whether or not a platform carries news. LinkedIn's late addition shows the scope is set by the ad line, not by self-image.
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The technology trial used to justify Australia's under-16 social media ban carries citations critics call AI-fabricated. Its authors conceded ChatGPT use only after being shown link metadata.
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