The European Commission accused Meta, the company behind Instagram and Facebook, of breaching its own rules of barring children under the age of 13 from using its platforms.

Molly Rose Foundation warns it would be a ‘high stakes gamble’ for the UK to implement an Australia-style ban at this stage.

"The cost of inaction is a generation of young people overwhelmed by anxiety and depression," writes Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest.

Indonesia has outlined new regulations that would restrict users under 16 from accessing digital platforms.

The company said usage grew from 40 minutes per day in 2023 to 46 minutes in 2026. Other documents referenced teens as being a top priority for the app before asking existing users for birthdays.

After decades working in the private tech industry, Julia Inman Grant now finds herself on the other side.

One-fifth of Australian teenagers ​under 16 were still using social media two months after the country banned platforms from allowing minors, ‌industry data showed, raising questions about the effectiveness of their age-gating methods.

Defendants include Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, and YouTube parent Google.

Portugal's parliament on Thursday approved a bill, on its first reading, requiring explicit parental consent for children aged 13 to 16 to access social media, in one of the first concrete legislative moves in Europe to impose such restrictions.