Communications Minister Anika Wells has doubled down on the government’s landmark under-16 social media ban, saying companies must comply with the law, as the founder of photo-sharing platform Snapchat argued there is mounting evidence Australia’s ban is backfiring.
Evan Spiegel, the chief executive of the social media platform’s parent company Snap, said Australia’s block on under-16s using social media was “a massive experiment with high stakes” and urged world leaders to resist rushing to similar “premature and performative measures”.