{"id":868461,"date":"2026-06-15T08:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868461\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:14:16","slug":"uk-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-to-give-kids-their-childhood-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868461\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to ban social media for under-16s to &#8216;give kids their childhood back&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will ban social media from offering services to under-16s, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The ban could\u00a0include platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram,\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re\u00a0going further than any country in the world by banning social media for under-16s and putting wider protections in place to give kids their childhood back,&#8221; said Starmer in a statement. <\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain will ban social media from offering services to under-16s, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":868462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[68226,24936,81,17723,3747,50,37915,345,103],"class_list":["post-868461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-breaking-news-europe","tag-business-news","tag-keir-starmer","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-news","tag-snap-inc","tag-social-media","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116753129221922104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}