{"id":60133,"date":"2026-06-15T04:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/uk-announces-social-media-ban-for-under-16s\/15\/06\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:06:06","slug":"uk-announces-social-media-ban-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/uk-announces-social-media-ban-for-under-16s\/15\/06\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"UK announces social media ban for under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Children in the United Kingdom under age 16 will be banned from social media in a \u201cbig moment for our country,\u201d British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Starmer announced the restriction in a press conference as he warned social media was having an impact on children\u2019s happiness and mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said he would not compromise on the \u201csafety and happiness of our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said he was confident the ban can be effective but acknowledged some children would find their way around it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world\/articles\/uk-announces-social-media-ban-074140630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children in the United Kingdom under age 16 will be banned from social media in a &ldquo;big moment for our country,&rdquo; British<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/uk-announces-social-media-ban-for-under-16s\/15\/06\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/dpa_international_526\/c3d1b69999b64046affd6970b569a00e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}