US EditionNew Push in Europe to Curb Children’s Social Media Use
- Greek Digital Minister Dimitris Papastergiou announced they will present a plan on Friday in Luxembourg to limit children's social media use across the EU.
- The proposal, led by Greece and supported by France and Spain, responds to growing concerns about harmful content and addictive platform design affecting minors.
- The plan includes setting an EU-wide digital adulthood age, requiring parental consent for children to access social media, and calls for an age-verification app by the European Commission next month.
- France passed a 2023 law mandating parental consent for users under 15 and introduced age verification on adult sites, prompting protests from three major platforms and leading TikTok to ban the harmful #SkinnyTok hashtag.
- EU investigations under the Digital Services Act into Meta and TikTok show fears platforms inadequately protect children, while Denmark plans to prioritize child digital safety during its presidency starting July.
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New push in Europe to curb children’s social media use
From dangerous diet tips to disinformation, cyberbullying to hate speech, the glut of online content harmful to children grows every day. But several European countries have had enough and agree the EU should do more to prevent minors' access to social media.
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New push in Europe to curb children's social media use
From dangerous diet tips to disinformation, cyberbullying to hate speech, the glut of online content harmful to children grows every day. But several European countries have had enough and agree the EU should do more to prevent minors' access to…
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
France, Greece and Denmark want to allow social media platforms only from the age of 15.
A dozen countries, including Spain, are pressing in the EU to establish a digital 'majority' and boost age verification systems to prevent children from accessing harmful content
Luxembourg. Concerned with risks ranging from misinformation and harassment to pornography, several European Union (EU) countries are pushing for the block to strengthen the protection of minors and limit their access to social networks.The EU already has rigid rules of conduct for digital platforms, but several countries of the bloc, supported by studies on the effects of social networks on children, are looking for measures to be strengthened.…
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