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Snapchat rejects Australian push to raise age for allowing teenagers on social media to 16

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A majority of Snapchat ’s 8 m users in Australia are aged between 13 and 24 .

The company is positioning itself as the anti-social media company’, focused on messaging between people who already know each other, rather than a platform dictated by algorithms.

The federal government is currently assessing age assurance technology amid calls from the opposition to raise the age for allowing teenagers on social media to 16 .

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