Age assurance trial stakeholders frozen out; Victorian Liberal leader’s impromptu press conference; and Tarantino’s favourite Tarantino

Reports that tests of social media facial age estimation technology had estimated a 16-year-old being as old as 37 have been downplayed by the age assurance technology trial. Photograph: Daniel de la Hoz/Getty Images

Good afternoon. The organisation behind the age assurance technology trial that will inform how to keep under-16s off social media has iced out key stakeholders after media leaks and resignations of two members.

Iain Corby, the executive director of the Age Verification Providers Association, has also downplayed reporting about inaccuracies with the facial estimation technology – one of the technologies tested in the trial – arguing that it can still be used even if it is out by seven years.