Spain plans to ban social media for under-16s, with tougher age checks and penalties for platforms that boost illegal content via algorithms. 🇪🇸
The move, pitched as protecting kids from a “digital Wild West,” raises questions about enforcement, teen rights, and platform accountability across Europe ⚖️

🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2nddvmryo

#TechNews #Spain #SocialMedia #Safety #Children #Teens #AI #Algorithms #Privacy #Regulation #EU #TikTok #Instagram #Grok #X #OnlineSafety #Policy #AgeVerification #Europe

Spain plans to ban social media for under-16s, with tougher age checks and penalties for platforms that boost illegal content via algorithms. 🇪🇸
The move, pitched as protecting kids from a “digital Wild West,” raises questions about enforcement, teen rights, and platform accountability across Europe ⚖️

🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2nddvmryo

#TechNews #Spain #SocialMedia #Safety #Children #Teens #AI #Algorithms #Privacy #Regulation #EU #TikTok #Instagram #Grok #X #OnlineSafety #Policy #AgeVerification #Europe

The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

‘We will protect them from the digital Wild West.’ Another country will ban social media for under-16s

Spain will ban social media for under-16s and require platforms to employ strict age verification tools, joining Australia, France and Denmark in moves to curb the influence of digital platforms on children.

#Spain #socialmedia #teens #teenagers #technology #tech

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/tech/spain-under-16-social-media-ban-intl

‘We will protect them from the digital Wild West.’ Another country will ban social media for under-16s

Spain will ban social media for under-16s and require platforms to employ strict age verification tools, joining Australia, France and Denmark in moves to curb the influence of digital platforms on children.

#Spain #socialmedia #teens #teenagers #technology #tech

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/tech/spain-under-16-social-media-ban-intl

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I have added an event to https://nolto.social/ for the Feb meeting and directed people to the OfficeHours page. Fingers crossed it will help promote.

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Australia and France recently enacted social media bans for children, with other countries considering similar legislation. The Onion examines the pros and cons of restricting social media access for teens. PRO Easier to talk shit about them behind their back Prevents access to harmful material for the 10 minutes it takes to bypass safeguards More […]

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'Major step': French MPs vote in favour of bill to ban social media for under-15s

France's National Assembly has backed a bill that would ban social media access for under-15s, a proposal supported by President Emmanuel Macron.

#France #socialmedia #teens #teenagers #technology #tech

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07x003vx0yo

'Major step': French MPs vote in favour of bill to ban social media for under-15s

France's National Assembly has backed a bill that would ban social media access for under-15s, a proposal supported by President Emmanuel Macron.

#France #socialmedia #teens #teenagers #technology #tech

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07x003vx0yo

Australia and France recently enacted social media bans for children, with other countries considering similar legislation. The Onion examines the pros and cons of restricting social media access for teens. PRO Easier to talk shit about them behind their back Prevents access to harmful material for the 10 minutes it takes to bypass safeguards More […]

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