Digital platforms
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Guide
Social media minimum age: regulatory guidance
Regulatory guidance for the online industry, setting out reasonable steps to comply with Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age obligation, due to take effect on 10 December 2025. It outlines how social media platforms can meet their obligations through deploying age assurance technologies, improved reporting pathways and clear communication with users.
Report
Digital platforms’ efforts under voluntary arrangements to combat disinformation and misinformation
This report sets out the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation digital platform signatories' efforts under the voluntary arrangements to combat disinformation and misinformation. It offers insights into key developments and data reported by signatories throughout 2024, including information on policies and approaches to artificial intelligence, content moderation and coordinated inauthentic behaviour.
Report
Digital and data capabilities for sexual and reproductive health: final report
Digital literacy has been framed as a necessity for sexual and reproductive health consumers who engage with healthcare via digital platforms. However, the question of what digital and data literacy looks like for current sexual and reproductive health practitioners remains under-addressed. This report presents findings from a 2022-2026 project which addresses these complex and interconnected...
Evaluation
Age Assurance Technology Trial
The Age Assurance Technology Trial evaluated the effectiveness, reliability and privacy impacts of a range of age assurance technologies. It assesses their performance against a wide range of internationally recognised criteria. It finds age assurance can be done in Australia privately, efficiently and effectively.
Report
Young men’s media landscaping report
This report explores online data from young men aged 12 to 17 years old across six countries providing a comprehensive, nationally representative map of their digital ecosystems and key emergent trends. It provides evidence-based and actionable insights that researchers, policymakers and practitioners can use to connect online beliefs and behaviours to relevant health issues facing...