{"id":996180,"date":"2026-03-04T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996180"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:10:38","slug":"eu-experts-to-start-work-on-social-media-ban-for-children-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/04\/eu-experts-to-start-work-on-social-media-ban-for-children-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"EU experts to start work on social media ban for children Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An EU expert group is to begin work this week on whether to ban social media for children with the aim of coming up with recommendations by the summer, Brussels said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen will attend the consultative panel&#8217;s inaugural meeting on Thursday, having launched the initiative in September, the European Commission said. <\/p>\n<p>Brussels is considering setting a minimum age to access social media after Australia in December required TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and other top sites to remove accounts held by under-16s, or face heavy fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An EU expert group is to begin work this week on whether to ban social media for children with the aim of coming up with recommendations by the summer, Brussels said Tuesday. European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen will attend the consultative panel&#8217;s inaugural meeting on Thursday, having launched the initiative in September, the European Commission said. Brussels is considering setting a minimum age to access social media after Australia in December required TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and other top sites to remove accounts held by under-16s, or face heavy fines.<\/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-996180","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\/996180","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=996180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}