Analysis-Big tech stops complaining, starts complying with Australia's teen social media ban

FILE PHOTO: The Facebook, TikTok and YouTube app icons are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Online platforms will ping Australian teenagers through over a million accounts in coming days offering a choice: download data, freeze profiles or lose the lot when a world-first ban on kids using social media starts on December 10.

TikTok, Snapchat and Meta's Facebook, Instagram and Threads are poised to deactivate accounts registered by users under 16, five people with knowledge of the plans said.