The government has launched sweeping new plans to ban social media for under-16s – and technology companies have warned that it could in fact put young people at greater risk.
Announcing the changes that will take the UK further than any other country in cracking down on social media, prime minister Keir Starmer said that “a full ban is the right choice” and that it was necessary to “give kids their childhood back”. "It will make a huge difference, it will make our children safer, it will make our children happier, it will give them more time, more security, more freedom to grow up, more opportunity,” he said in a press conference.
