PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, December 10, 2025: First, Australia’s social media ban for under 16s takes over the Australian front pages. Next, a cartoon in the Guardian suggests that adults might have slight screen addiction problems too. Also, the winner of the Turner Prize this year is Nnena Kalu. She is the first person with a learning disability to win the prestigious award. Next, conservation efforts in France pay off, and animals start their own fundraising.

Australia’s social media ban has come into effect and is all over the front pages. The Courier Mail has quite a dramatic front page: "Today childhood will be rebooted". The Herald Sun headlines with: "Let us be kids". Similarly, the Daily Telegraph says: "It’s great to be a kid again". Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers have dedicated their front pages to the ban, and Murdoch’s company News Corps has been one of the main backers of the "Let them be kids" campaign since it launched in May 2024. The independent news site Deep Cut is very critical of this campaign. It argues that Murdoch and NewsCorp are "attempting to claw back some of their lost advertising revenue”.

The Sydney Morning Herald looks at some of the challenges that lie ahead of the ban, be it pesky teens or legal teams. The Singaporean Daily The Straits Times reports that alternative social media apps have surged in the last few days. The Independent says that seeing social media as boring could be a better way to get teenagers off their phones. The Guardian has an article discussing the rise of a youth movement for digital justice.

In the UK, Nnena Kalu has been awarded this year’s Turner Prize. The 59-year-old autistic Scottish artist is the first ever person with a learning disability to win the prestigious award. For the Times, her win "represents the erasure of a border that had not been conscious enough of between neurotypical and neurodiverse artists". The Guardian praises her "embodied" and "sensuous" art.

Elsewhere, Les Echos reports that the World Wildlife Fund has found that protected species have seen their population increase by 120 percent since 1990. It’s evidence that conservation works, when given the necessary means to be done properly, the WWF says.

Meanwhile, it seems that animals have taken fundraising efforts into their own hands. The infamous drunk raccoon in the US has raised $150,000 for an animal shelter in Virginia, as **USA Today **reports. Meanwhile, octopuses are on the brink of busking.

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