2 min learnApr 24, 2026 05:26 PM IST
Norway mentioned on Friday it could current a invoice in parliament by year-end to ban kids from utilizing social media till they flip 16, making expertise corporations answerable for the duty of age verifications.
A number of European nations looking for to rein in kids’s use of social media after Australia took the lead with a world-first ban on under-16s final December.
“We are introducing this laws as a result of we would like a childhood the place kids get to be kids,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere mentioned in a press release.
“Play, friendships, and on a regular basis life should not be taken over by algorithms and screens. That is an essential measure to safeguard kids’s digital lives.”
The federal government didn’t say which functions would be focused.
Australia’s ban covers Meta apps reminiscent of Instagram and Fb in addition to TikTok, Snapchat, Google’s YouTube and Elon Musk’s X, previously Twitter.
Norway will introduce its invoice in parliament by the tip of 2026, the minority Labour authorities mentioned.
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