Elon Musk last month said Australia's new law banning under-16s from joining social media was a "backdoor way" to control "access to the internet." Musk is the owner of X, formerly Twitter, and close to Donald Trump.

Australia's prime minister said Sunday he was ready to "engage" with billionaire X owner Elon Musk over his criticism of the government's ban on under-16s joining social media."The obligation will be on social media companies to do everything they can to make sure that those people under 16 don't have access to social media,

The new law will deliver a message to tech companies to "clean up their act," the country's prime minister has said.