Tech billionaire Elon Musk has warned the Albanese government its legislation to impose age restrictions on social media platforms may not be legal.

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.

The government is rushing to get its laws banning children under 16 from social media through parliament before the end of the week, with a senate inquiry open for submissions for just one day.

A law is to be passed in Australia this week that will exclude children and young people from social networks. However, there is still some debate.

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday social media firms would be required to destroy personal data used to verify ages of users, as part of what the government says is a world-leading ban on under-16s using the services.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk criticized Australia’s proposed legislation to ban social media access for children under 16, calling it “a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians.

Billionaire Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), has criticised Australia’s newly proposed legislation to ban social media access for children under 16. The bill, introduced in parliament on Thursday, also proposes fines of up to A$49.5 million (US$32 million) for social media companies that fail to comply with systemic safety requirements.

U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, has criticised Australia's proposed law to ban social media for children under 16 and fine social media platforms of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for companies for systemic breaches.

Elon Musk has openly criticized a proposed Australian law that would ban social media access for children under 16. The law, championed by Prime Minis

Liberal MP Andrew Wallace has discussed tech billionaire Elon Musk’s criticism towards the Albanese government over its new social media age limit bill.