Norway to ban social media for under-16s

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Several European countries, specified arsenic France, Spain, and Denmark, person already said they volition present a integer property of bulk for societal networks and others similar Australia and Turkiye person already done so

Published - April 24, 2026 03:00 p.m. IST - Oslo

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Norway said Friday (April 24, 2026) it volition contiguous a measure this twelvemonth making it the latest state seeking to prohibition societal networks for nether 16s, adding that exertion companies volition beryllium liable for verifying the property of its users.

"We are introducing this authorities due to the fact that we privation a puerility wherever children get to beryllium children. Play, friendships, and mundane beingness indispensable not beryllium taken implicit by algorithms and screens," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said successful a statement.

Published - April 24, 2026 03:00 p.m. IST

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