
Despite Australia’s strict social media ban for minors, a YouTube exemption poses risks
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government carved out an exemption for YouTube when it passed laws banning social media access for children under 16, but some mental health and extremism experts say the video-sharing website exposes them to addictive and harmful content. Australia will block video-sharing platforms TikTok and Snapchat, Meta-owned Instagram and…