Australian PM makes last pitch on eve of teen social media ban

Sydney: Australia’s young teenagers will soon be spared from “endless” scrolling online, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday on the eve of the country’s world-first social media ban. Social media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok will from midnight face heavy penalties if they fail to weed out Australia-based users under 16. Albanese made a last-ditch pitch to convince hundreds of thousands of Australian adolescents the contentious laws were for their own goo