Three months into Australia’s world-first teen social media ban, new data suggests that young Australians’ use of social media has only dropped modestly.
While TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat all saw a decrease in use by Australians aged 10-15, the majority of teens who had been using the social media platforms pre-ban remained on the services afterwards.
That’s according to a new snapshot of data provided to Crikey by parental monitoring company Qustodio, adding to early evidence that there’s widespread circumvention of the government’s flagship tech policy.
