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Investigations
Australia Switched Off Social Media for a Generation of Kids. Nepal Already Ran That Experiment.
The ban is sold as youth mental-health protection, but its own university researchers call the harm evidence overblown, and the one nation that already banned a platform got ID checks and VPN workarounds, not healthier kids.
InvestigationsSix Negative Tests, Forty-Two Days: What Australia's Biosecurity Order Won't Say Out Loud
Australia extended facility detention of six hantavirus contacts to a full 42 days under the Biosecurity Act after they tested negative. WHO's own guidance reserves that option for the high-risk tier; most peer countries chose monitoring.