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Meta, TikTok argue YouTube should be included in Australia's under-16 social media ban


The kinda social media platform is currently exempt.

Australia has deemed YouTube as a critical education tool and is allowing use, despite an original assumption that the Google-owned platform would be included, Reuters and The Guardian reports. It would be akin to banning the sale of soft drinks to minors but exempting Coca-Cola," said TikTok’s director of public policy in Australia and New Zealand, Ella Woods-Joyce. The biggest news stories this morning: We get Dragon Quest-themed golf merch because OG fans are now grandparents, How to clean your AirPods, Tim Cook teases M4 MacBook Air reveal for this week.

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