Australia has warned it would double the maximum penalty it can impose on firms failing to uphold its social media ban for children and plans to also strengthen the information-gathering capabilities of its internet regulator, Samuel Mckeith of Reuters reports. The government stated it is investigating the possible non-compliance of the following platforms: Meta‘s (META) Instagram and Facebook, Google’s (GOOGL) YouTube, Snap‘s (SNAP) Snapchat, and TikTok.

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