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Pascale Davies

France’s AI minister calls for a Europe-wide ban on social media for children under 15

France’s digital affairs and artificial intelligence (AI) minister is on a mission to unify Europe to force social media companies to put on age verification markers, adding that there should be no social networks for those under the age of 15. 

Clara Chappaz told French media on Sunday that the country has three months to “mobilise its European partners” for an agreement that obliges social media platforms to verify the age of their users, and failing to do so would result in sanctions.

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