Australia’s online commissioner has revealed why no companies have been fined six months after the under-16 social media ban.

An Australian judge has fined X Corp. $465,000 for failing to provide information to an online safety watchdog about how it ...

Social media firms are improving efforts to meet Australia's under-16 ban, but whether they're compliant is still under ...

The Australian eSafety Commissioner was handed AU$21 million in the 2021-22 Budget earlier this month, with the funding to be spread across software, more staff, and continuing its work on ...

Elon Musk’s social media company X Corp has been slapped with a six-figure fine after admitting the platform failed to ...

Australia’s eSafety Commission has raised concerns about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to assist predators in grooming children online as the country debates restrictions on the ...

Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant is set to receive sweeping new powers in early 2022 as part of the Online Safety Act that passed Parliament last month. Among other things, the new ...

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant made headlines globally for her failed legal battle with billionaire Elon Musk over footage of a violent stabbing on his platform X and is responsible for ...

The social media platform X is expected return to the federal court today to argue why it should not have to hide footage of the Wakeley stabbing. As it stands, the platform is in defiance of orders ...

In short: The eSafety commissioner won a two-day injunction requiring social media platform X to hide from all users certain content relating to the Wakeley stabbing. X had hidden the content from ...

Five months into Australia’s world-first social media ban for under 16s, the eSafety Commissioner still won’t fine platforms ...

In recent weeks, the problem of safe and appropriate use of the internet, and specifically social networking sites, has been brought to the fore. There has been the high-profile incident involving ...