News Summary

• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Britain will ban under-16s from using various social media apps.
• The u.k. ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16 is just the latest in what has become a percolating global wave of similar legislation.
• Even in the United States, more than half the individual states have taken steps toward such a ban, although always facing extremely stiff resistance from the industry’s biggest tech giants.
• Do any of the countries banning social media for kids actually have the guts to force tech companies into compliance?