By Sean Maguire ( July 29, 2026, 06:27 GMT | Insight) -- X Corp. has urged Australia to abandon or substantially revise legislation that would strengthen enforcement of the country’s under-16 social media ban, arguing it gives the eSafety Commissioner overly broad information-gathering powers without adequate safeguards and fails to address flaws in the age-verification regime. In contrast, TikTok and YouTube used submissions to a Senate inquiry to outline their compliance efforts, including TikTok's removal of more than 550,000 under-16 accounts and YouTube's expanded AI age-assurance systems.X Corp. has told an Australian Senate inquiry that legislation intended to strengthen enforcement of the country’s under-16 social-media ban is vague, weakens privacy and procedural safeguards and gives the online-safety regulator overly broad powers to compel information, while TikTok and YouTube have described how they are complying with the law....
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