Pressure mounts on Labor after Guardian Australia report documenting reporter’s week of virtual sexual harassment and violence while posing as a child avatar ...

Online gaming company says voluntary age assurance technology will limit teens and children messaging users outside their own age groups ...

One of the world’s most popular online games is exposing Australian children as young as nine to sexually explicit and suicidal content, with adults also infiltrating the platform.

Roblox is introducing new safety features for children under the age of 13, following criticism of how it protects younger users. The free online gaming platform, which has around 70 million daily ...

Popular gaming platform Roblox says it will launch its age verification system in three countries, including Australia, in the same month the federal government's social media ban for under 16s comes ...

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit and streaming platforms Kick and Twitch are affected by the ban. Children under the age of 16 in Australia are no longer allowed to ...

The rollout in India follows earlier implementations in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands, where Roblox introduced ...