YouTube was listed as an exemption in November last year when the Parliament passed world-first laws that will ban Australian children under 16 from social media platforms.

Australia has picked a fight with the world’s largest video platform by backtracking on an earlier promise to exclude YouTube in its social media ban for children under 16.

Communications Minister Anika Wells has announced YouTube’s inclusion in Labor’s social media ban for under-16s, reversing a prior exemption.

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Separately, YouTube said it is deploying age-estimation technology in the U.S. to determine if some users are underage.

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