Children under the age of 16 in Australia are no longer allowed to have social media accounts by law. Some of the platforms included in the ban are TikTok, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and threads. The Australian government says the ban will reduce the negative impact of features that encourage children to spend time on screens, potentially being exposed to harmful content. But critics of the ban say that children will not get the social contact they need and might be tempted to search in darker parts of the internet. Let's have our first headline. This one is from The Observer, a newspaper in the UK. Australia's social media ban comes into force. And that headline again from The Observer, a British newspaper.
Australia's social media ban comes into force. So, this headline describes the start of the new law and the expression we're looking at is 'comes into force'.
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