Calls for Age Verification on Social Media Grow

Australian children could be barred from some websites, as a furore between Australian politicians and billionaire Elon Musk reignites calls for age verification technology. Whether graphic content should remain on social media has become the subject of heated debate as social media site X, formerly Twitter, fights an edict from the eSafety Commissioner to remove content of a stabbing at a Sydney church. This comes as the social media giant’s owner Elon Musk and Australia’s politicians engage in a war of words, calling independent senator Jacqui Lambie an “enemy of the people” after she called him a “social media knob,” and trading jabs with the prime minister who labelled him an “arrogant billionaire.”...