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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes to have a ban on children using social media that is "designed to be addictive" enacted by early next year.
By
Leigh Kiniry,
Emmet Lyons
Producer
Emmet Lyons is a news desk editor at the CBS News London bureau, coordinating and producing stories for all CBS News platforms. Prior to joining CBS News, Emmet worked as a producer at CNN for four years.

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