Send us a text Social media can feel like a gladiator arena for adults, let alone kids. We take a clear-eyed look at Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act and why it puts the responsibility on platforms to prevent under-16s from creating or keeping accounts. No criminal penalties for parents, no blanket government ID checks—just “reasonable steps” that force companies to build safer systems, document their methods, and accept penalties when they fail. We walk through how age assurance act...
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Send us a text Social media can feel like a gladiator arena for adults, let alone kids. We take a clear-eyed look at Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act and why it puts the responsibility on platforms to prevent under-16s from creating or keeping accounts. No criminal penalties for parents, no blanket government ID checks—just “reasonable steps” that force companies to build safer systems, document their methods, and accept penalties when they fail. We walk through how age assurance act...
Send us a text Fear is faster than facts—and when politics supercharge that fear, public health pays the price. Michelle, a former physician, takes you from the birth of vaccination under Edward Jenner to the modern machine that turns doubt into identity. We break down how a single fraudulent Lancet paper by Andrew Wakefield seeded decades of mistrust, why media amplification and algorithmic outrage kept the myth alive, and how anti‑vax sentiment migrated from wellness enclaves to right‑wing ...
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Send us a text Social media can feel like a gladiator arena for adults, let alone kids. We take a clear-eyed look at Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act and why it puts the responsibility on platforms to prevent under-16s from creating or keeping accounts. No criminal penalties for parents, no blanket government ID checks—just “reasonable steps” that force companies to build safer systems, document their methods, and accept penalties when they fail. We walk through how age assurance act...
