News Summary

• Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok.
• The data comes from the parental control software maker Qustodio, and it puts numbers to something already visible in the enforcement record.
• The shape of the recovery is what makes the data interesting.
• Usage fell sharply when the law came into force and then climbed steadily back, which is the pattern of a barrier being worked around rather than a behaviour being changed.