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Meta, TikTok slam YouTube's 'sweetheart' exemption from Australia's under-16 ban (update*)

By James Panichi ( April 22, 2025, 07:01 GMT | Insight) -- Meta and TikTok have hit back at an Australian minister, following media revelations suggesting she decided to exempt YouTube from a social-media ban for under-16s while still formally consulting on the issue with other digital platforms. In a statement today, a TikTok spokesperson said the “sweetheart deal” made between Communications Minister Michelle Rowland and YouTube, revealed by newswire Bloomberg, raised “serious questions about the integrity of the government’s plan to exclude them from the under-16 ban.”Meta and TikTok have hit back at an Australian minister, following media revelations suggesting she decided to exempt YouTube from a social-media ban for under-16s while still formally consulting on the issue with other digital platforms....

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