India should consider age-based curbs on social media, adviser says

NEW DELHI: India’s chief economic adviser proposed age-based limits on access to social media platforms he said were “predatory” in their approach to keeping users online, signalling a potential blow to Meta and YouTube in their largest user market.

Such a shift would pull India in line with a growing global trend, after Australia became the first ‌nation last year to ‌ban social media for children younger than 16.

On Monday, France’s National Assembly backed legislation to ban children under 15 from social media and Britain, Denmark and Greece are studying the issue.