MPs seek to relax election-day social media ban
A law barring the publishing or broadcasting of political messaging on the eve and day of elections, intended to prevent influencing the outcome, is obsolete and needs to change, MPs ...
TikTok reaches first state settlement over teen safety claims
Alabama said on Friday it had reached a settlement with TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, that requires the social media platform to impose new usage limits and enhanced ...
Cyprus to submit social media age limit bill to parliament in December
Cyprus intends to submit a bill to parliament in December setting a minimum age of 15 for access to social media, Deputy Research Minister Nicodemos Damianou confirmed on Thursday.
The bill ...
Social media age limits: what countries around the world are doing
Children have long been able to get around social media age limits by simply entering a different date of birth. Governments around the world are increasingly deciding that this is ...
EU Commission proposes under-13s social media ban
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday set out a sweeping plan to keep children safe from online dangers, proposing to ban under 13s from social media and ...
Cabinet adopts social media action plan to protect the young
An action plan for the protection of minors using social media was approved on Wednesday by the cabinet, following an “urgent challenge” created by the fact that 98 per cent of ...
French lawmakers vote on social media ban for children
French lawmakers approved a ban on social media access for children under the age of 15, as concerns grow around the world over the impact social media have on the health ...
Britain announces sweeping social media ban for under-16s
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would ban social media sites for under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms, in some of the world’...
Malaysia bars under-16s from signing up for social media
Malaysia has begun barring those aged under 16 from registering accounts on social media platforms, its communications regulator said on Monday, as it boosts efforts to protect minors from exposure to ...
From ‘likes’ to liability: influencers through the lens of the law
By Antonis Glykis and Christina Avgousti
In a world where social media influencers have become demigods and authority figures for millions of consumers, it seems that questions of legal accountability ...
EU charges Meta platforms over child safety failures on Facebook and Instagram
Meta Platforms’, Facebook and Instagram were charged on Wednesday with breaching landmark EU tech rules and must do more to block children under 13 from accessing the social networks, EU regulators ...
‘Trusted flaggers’ to police the web
When does social-media rage turn into hate speech? Is Eoka a terrorist organisation? Should it be legal to blame Nato expansion for the war in Ukraine? And who gets to ...
Cyprus’ social media ban in practice
When President Nikos Christodoulides announced last week that Cyprus is poised to implement a social media ban for children under 15, he blithely mentioned that the age verification system would be ...
Teens in Cyprus: ‘Don’t blame social media’
As the Cyprus government prepares a bill banning social media for the under-15s, we asked a selection of 13- and 14-year-olds at the American International School in Cyprus for ...
Cyprus’ social media ban is really about digital identity
By Andreas Shialaros
On Thursday, President Nikos Christodoulides announced that Cyprus will ban social media for children under 15, joining Greece, and potentially Turkey, in a wave of similar measures sweeping ...
Cyprus to ban social media for children under 15
Children younger than 15 years old will no longer be able to use social media in Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday, while hailing the European Union’s new age ...
EU age verification app ready as Europe moves to curb children’s social media access
The EU’s age verification app for online platforms is ready and will soon be available to use, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday, as member ...
Impact study needed before social media age limit
Any move to set an age limit for social media use in Cyprus should be backed by an impact study and include children’s input, commissioner for children’s rights ...
Greece to ban social media for under-15s from 2027, PM says
Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, citing rising anxiety, sleep problems and the addictive ...
Greece to join global push to limit youth access to social media
Greek mother Georgia Efstathiou has tried everything to loosen the grip that social media has on her 14-year-old son: heart-to-heart talks; internet-free time; confiscating his phone. Arguments flare as she ...
Poland joins European push to restrict social media for children
Poland plans to introduce new legislation to ban social media for children under 15 years of age and will hold platforms responsible for age verification, Education Minister Barbara Nowacka told Bloomberg ...
UK eyes rapid ban on social media for under 16s, curbs to AI chatbots
Britain could bring in an Australian-style ban on social media for children under 16 as early as this year and close a loophole that left some AI chatbots outside safety rules, ...
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Turkey edges towards curbing social media access to minors amid global push
Turkey is laying the groundwork to restrict social media access for minors with a parliamentary report this week calling for broad measures including age verification and content filtering, joining a ...
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Social media groups face Europe backlash as Spain, Greece weigh teen bans
Spain and Greece on Tuesday proposed bans on social media use by teenagers, marking a hardening of attitudes by European nations against technology platforms they say are designed to be ...