Online child exploitation looms amid planned social media restrictions

2026-03-17 - 06:03

Protecting the youth: This photo taken on Oct. 30, 2025, shows 10-year- old Bianca Navarro lying on the floor as she watches a show on YouTube at her home in western Sydney, Australia. Australia’s un- der-16 social media ban will make the nation a real-life laboratory on how best to tackle the technology’s impact on young people, experts say.