News Summary

• Pinterest CEO Bill Ready has called for governments to ban social media for users under 16.
• He said social media platforms gave “insufficient forethought about the consequences” of what they could do to children.
• Australia, Malaysia, Spain, and Indonesia have all announced social media bans.
• States throughout the U.S. are also looking at ways to restrict minors’ access to social media.“When we make excuses for not acting in the public’s best interest, tech CEOs sound like 20th-century tobacco executives who had to be shamed and sued into submission,” he wrote.