A Million Teenagers Just Got Barred From Social Media, and Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Hoax’

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  I'm Tracy Mumford.

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  Today's Wednesday, December 10th.

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  Here's what we're covering.

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  As of this morning,

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  Australia has become the first country in the world to ban social media for children under the age of 16.

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  Today,

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  hundreds of thousands of teenagers there woke up to find they'd been kicked out of their accounts.

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  Australia's law applies specifically to TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram,

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  YouTube, Reddit, and a handful of other sites.

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  And the companies face tens of millions of dollars in fines if they don't remove underage users.

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  Our social media laws are not a cure, but they are a treatment plan.

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  We want children to have their childhood, and we want parents to have peace of mind.

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