{"id":22121,"date":"2026-02-26T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/mumsnet-campaign-demands-ban-on-social-media-for-under-16s\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:37:16","slug":"mumsnet-campaign-demands-ban-on-social-media-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/mumsnet-campaign-demands-ban-on-social-media-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumsnet campaign demands ban on social media for under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resembling cigarette packet warnings, the ads highlight dangers and urge people to email MPs <\/p>\n<p>Mumsnet has launched a campaign to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s featuring health warnings in the style of those on cigarette packets.<\/p>\n<p>The deliberately provocative national advertising campaign calls for all social media to be banned for children under the age of 16. The images on billboards and social media make a number of stark statements related to health.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/feb\/26\/mumsnet-campaign-demands-ban-social-media-under-16s\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d83451fdb8846aca31ac7234bc3f9c32b0d2e215\/1186_268_1076_862\/master\/1076.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6517b6960e2163ff90704e728a76ff12\" title=\"Mumsnet campaign demands ban on social media for under-16s\" \/>Resembling cigarette packet warnings, the ads highlight dangers and urge people to email MPs<br \/>\nMumsnet has launched a campaign to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s featuring health warnings in the style of those on cigarette packets.<br \/>\nThe deliberately provocative national advertising campaign calls for all social media to be banned for children under the age of 16. The images on billboards and social media make a number of stark statements related to health. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resembling cigarette packet warnings, the ads highlight dangers and urge people to email MPs Mumsnet has launched a campaign to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s featuring health warnings in the style of those on cigarette packets. The deliberately provocative national advertising campaign calls for all social media to be banned for children &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/mumsnet-campaign-demands-ban-on-social-media-for-under-16s\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mumsnet campaign demands ban on social media for under-16s<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}