{"id":1002961,"date":"2026-04-15T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002961"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:38:57","slug":"social-media-platforms-need-to-stop-never-ending-scrolling-uks-starmer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/social-media-platforms-need-to-stop-never-ending-scrolling-uks-starmer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media platforms need to stop never-ending scrolling, UK&#8217;s Starmer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok need to take action to stop young users wasting hours mindlessly scrolling never-ending videos, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Britain, like other countries is considering restricting access to social media for \u200cchildren and \u2060it \u2060is testing bans, curfews and app time limits to see \u200bhow they impact sleep, family life and schoolwork. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re consulting on whether there should be a ban for under 16s,&#8221; Starmer told BBC Radio. &#8220;But I think equally important, the addictive scrolling mechanisms are really problematic to my mind. They \u2060need to \u200cgo.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok need to take action to stop young users wasting hours mindlessly scrolling never-ending videos, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday. Britain, like other countries is considering restricting access to social media for \u200cchildren and \u2060it \u2060is testing bans, curfews and app time limits to see \u200bhow they impact sleep, family life and schoolwork. &#8220;We&#8217;re consulting on whether there should be a ban for under 16s,&#8221; Starmer told BBC Radio. &#8220;But I think equally important, the addictive scrolling mechanisms are really problematic to my mind. They \u2060need to \u200cgo.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}