UK prime minister Keir Starmer holding a press conference on children’s online well-being. Image: Number 10 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
‘Children will be given back their childhoods’, the UK government said in a statement.
The UK is the latest to ban social media for underage users, as countries across the world reassess Big Tech’s impact on children’s growth and safety.
“Children will be given back their childhoods…with less time for scrolling and more time for play”, the UK government said in a statement today (15 June).
The government is blanket banning under 16s from a number of large user-to-user platforms that enable social interaction and allow users to post in an algorithmic feed, such as Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.
