{"id":7218,"date":"2026-02-18T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:54:06","slug":"spain-moves-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/18\/spain-moves-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain moves to ban social media for under 16s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has announced plans to introduce legislation that would ban social media access for children under the age of 16. The proposed law aims to protect minors from online risks such as addiction, violence, and exposure to inappropriate content, which the Prime Minister described as a &#8220;digital wild west.&#8221; To enforce these restrictions, the government intends to mandate &#8220;real barriers&#8221; through effective age verification systems and hold tech executives legally responsible for platform infringements. This move aligns Spain with other European nations like France and Denmark, reflecting a growing regional trend toward stricter digital safeguards for youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 3, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/news\/spain-moves-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s\/\">euractiv.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has announced plans to introduce legislation that would ban social media access for children under the age of 16. The proposed law aims to protect minors from online risks such as addiction, violence, and exposure to inappropriate content, which the Prime Minister described as a &#8220;digital wild west.&#8221; To enforce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7447,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions\/7447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}