Australia is set to become the first country to ban social media for under-16s after its Senate approved new legislation which X-owner Elon Musk has suggested is a "backdoor way to control access to the Internet.

Software testers hired by Australia's government to determine how to enforce the world's first national teen social media ban have worked on defence and election contracts but will use another experience to guide their study: wrangling their own children online.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, criticized proposed legislation in Australia that aims to ban social media for children under 16.