Overnight, around half a million accounts on Meta’s social media platforms Facebook and Instagram vanished in Australia.

Potentially up to a million Australian social media accounts have vanished from platforms like X and TikTok – and it’s causing waves globally

I have mixed feelings about this decision. I think the better solution would have been putting measures in place to restrict the content certain age brackets see rather than remove them from the platforms completely.

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