Ursula von der Leyen trails possible "social media delay"
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc will consider a “social media delay” for children via a legal proposal as soon as this summer.
Last September, von der Leyen used the annual state of the union speech to announce a special panel of experts would advise her on online child safety issues in a bid to amp up online child protection measures across the EU. Though the panel is only due to report recommendations this summer.
But in a speech in Copenhagen on Tuesday, the Commission president said legislation to age-gate social media platforms could land this summer, while stipulating that she wasn’t “pre-empting the panel’s findings”.
Still, if the Commission is preparing a legal proposal with a similar timeline to the experts’ recommendations it means that work is going on in parallel.
