After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers "immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions," reports Fortune:14-year-old in New South Wales, toldThe Washington Post in December 2025, justbefore the implementation of the ban, she planned to use her mother'sface ID to log in to Snapchatand .In a Reddit thread on ways to bypass the ban, one user suggestedusing a printed mesh face mask from Temu to outsmart apps'facial recognition tools. Others still have tried VPNs that obscuretheir locations. A new reportsuggests these efforts are working. In a survey of 1,050 Australians ages 12 to 15 conducted last month, theUK-based suicide prevention organization the Molly Rose Foundationfound more than 60% of teens who had social media accounts before theban still had access to at least one of those platforms. Social mediasites including TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, have retained more than half of their users under 16.About two-thirds of young users say these platforms have taken "noaction" to remove or reactive accounts that existed before therestrictions. The survey comes at the heels of the Australian internet regulatorcallingfor an investigation into the five largest social media platformsover potential breaches of the ban. The article points out that "Greece, France, Indonesia, Austria, Spain, and the UK have or are considering similar action, and eight U.S. states are weighing legislation that would put guardrails or ban social media use for minors.Read more of this story at Slashdot.