Children's social media curbs planned across EU, von der Leyen says
Ursula von der Leyen backs phased access rules after experts urged supervised use for under-13s and stronger safeguards for teens.
- The European Commission plans to introduce legislation after the summer aimed at establishing a harmonized, bloc-wide framework to limit young children's access to social media.
- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen highlighted that the draft law will focus on restricting predatory algorithms and preventing Big Tech platforms from exploiting minors.
- An expert advisory panel has recommended a phased approach, including an outright restriction on unsupervised social media use for children under thirteen.
- The planned restrictions will extend beyond traditional social networks to "social media plus" services, capturing gaming platforms, messaging apps, and artificial intelligence chatbots with addictive features.
- This upcoming regulatory push aims to resolve legal conflicts with member nations like France and Greece, which have faced pushback from the bloc for independently drafting their own national age limits.
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