Julie Inman Grant

Australia’s online safety regulator has launched Federal Court action against Telegram, alleging the messaging service left videos of terrorist executions and mass shootings on its platform for weeks after Australians reported them

Between July and December 2025, more than 2,000 complaints of sexual extortion were made to eSafety

Increasing recognition of those challenges has prompted governments, including Australia’s, to embark on belated attempts at regulation

The United Kingdom has also announced plans to implement a similar policy

An Australian judge fined X Corp., the company Elon Musk set up which holds social media platform X, 650,000 Australian dollars (€398,500) on Thursday for failing to provide information to an online safety watchdog in 2023 about how it tackled child sexual exploitation content

Julie Inman Grant, eSafety Commissioner on Wednesday issued legally enforceable transparency notices requiring the companies to detail their safety systems, staffing, and cybersecurity measures

ESAfety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on Tuesday released her first compliance report since those laws took effect demanding 10 platforms remove all Australian account-holders younger than 16

Australians would now have to verify their ages to access explicit video games and “adult” websites starting Monday, months after the country became the world’s first to ban social media platforms for those under 16

Some sites in Australia had already barred non-members on Friday and were refusing new registrations, days before being obliged to use age verification technology to keep out underage users

New standards in the Online Safety Act come into effect across Australia on Monday, meaning digital platforms must verify the age of their users

While playing as an eight-year-old girl, the reporter was given a sexualised avatar, cyberbullied, aggressively killed, sexually assaulted and shat on — all with parental control settings in place

Snapchat was one of 10 platforms required to ban people aged under 16 from accessing its services in December last year

Australia's decision to ban social media use for children under 16 has become one of the most consequential digital policy moves in recent years

Anyone visiting the Sortino family home in Melbourne, Australia, last month could have cut the tension with a knife

Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote for the second time in months to Inman Grant, a dual national who also has US citizenship, on December 30 and accused her of an attempt “to design and implement a global censorship regime”