Documents Relating To A Meeting That Occurred On 13 October 2025 Between The Minister, The E-Safety Commissioner And Representatives Of Meta, Snapchat, Tiktok And Youtube.

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On 13 October 2025, Minister Wells met virtually with TikTok representatives, the E-Safety Commissioner, and officials from Meta, Snapchat, and YouTube to discuss compliance with Australia's social media minimum age legislation (SMMA), which was to take effect on 10 December 2025. The Minister sought to reinforce that TikTok must implement age-restriction measures and work with regulators to prevent under-16s from holding accounts. The eSafety Commissioner had preliminarily determined TikTok to be an age-restricted platform under the legislation's intent. Key compliance expectations included detecting and deactivating underage accounts, implementing layered age-assurance approaches, preventing circumvention and re-registration, and providing accessible review mechanisms. The briefing clarified that platforms need not age-verify all users if existing data reliably infers age, and warned against using broad age verification to create friction undermining