If so many experts oppose a social-media age ban, why is the government intent on rushing it through?

One of the authors of the only major study on the effects of social media on teen mental health cited by the government doesn’t back the government’s ban. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian

A dominant theme of the hastily written submissions to the federal government’s one-day review of its social-media ban bill is that the process is far too rushed to consider its wide-ranging effects on all Australians.

A year from now, every Australian logging on to Facebook, Instagram or TikTok may be confronted with a prompt that the company is requiring you to prove your age.