The new law will deliver a message to tech companies to "clean up their act," the country's prime minister has said.

Even a 2023 recommendation by the U.S. surgeon general to put health warnings on social media, blaming it for what he called a teenage mental health crisis, could not help lawmakers from Florida to France navigate resistance on grounds of free speech,

The Australian Senate has passed a social media ban for young children that will soon become a world-first law