Teenagers in Australia come up with genius way to get round social media ban

Ten platforms have restricted who can make accounts with them (Picture: Getty Images)

Australia might have banned all children under 16 from social media last month, but that doesn’t mean all youngsters are offline for good.

The country’s sweeping law theoretically locked hundreds of thousands of teens from Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram by enforcing age restrictions.

But canny teens told the MailOnline how they’ve outsmarted these companies’ new age verification tools in rather simple ways.