Australia has just relieved its anxiety over teens on social media – or has it?

Sydney, Australia
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For parents and campaigners who’ve long argued that incessant scrolling is damaging young minds, the start of Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s is just the beginning.

Wayne Holdsworth, the father of Mac, who took his life at 17 after being targeted by a sexual extortion scam on social media, joined other parents who’d lost children to suicide at a select gathering in Sydney at the prime minister’s official residence on Wednesday.

“It’s really sad. I shouldn’t be here because he should have been protected,” Holdsworth told CNN at the event to mark the law, which came into effect hours earlier. “I should have known…