Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that criticism by Elon Musk of Australia's social media ban on children under 16 was the X owner pushing an agenda for the social platform, while indicating he was open to talk to the billionaire about the ban,

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

Anthony Albanese has dashed criticism of tech billionaire Elon Musk as the government works to implement its social media age ban for teens under 16 years of age.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, criticized proposed legislation in Australia that aims to ban social media for children under 16.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk criticized Australia’s proposed legislation to ban social media access for children under 16, calling it “a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians.

Elon Musk has blasted proposed legislation from Australia's government that would outlaw access to social media for children under 16.

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that criticism by Elon Musk of Australia’s social media ban on children under 16 was the X owner pushing an agenda

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.