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Laurence Grondin-Robillard, Professeure associée à l'École des médias et doctorante en communication, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

A social media ban for Canadian kids sounds simple, but Bill C-34 has major limitations

Introduced in June 2026 by Canadian Culture Minister Marc Miller, Bill C-34 would ban social media for users under 16.

In the past year alone, tech giants have spread a slew of problematic content, including TikTok posts promoting extreme thinness, ads for cocaine on Facebook and sexually explicit deepfakes created by the Grok chatbot and shared on X.

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