{"id":23524,"date":"2026-06-15T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/social-media-firms-hit-back-as-starmer-announces-ban-for-under-16s-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:37:15","slug":"social-media-firms-hit-back-as-starmer-announces-ban-for-under-16s-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/social-media-firms-hit-back-as-starmer-announces-ban-for-under-16s-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, YouTube and Snapchat say ban, which would stop children using their platforms, will drive them to \u2018less safe services\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/jun\/15\/keir-starmer-social-media-ban-under-16s-tik-tok-instagram-snapchat-twitter-x-meta-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jun\/15\/uk-under-16s-social-media-ban-how-will-it-work\">How will the ban work?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/10\/parents-uk-how-feel-about-potential-under-16s-social-media-ban\">UK parents: how do you feel about the ban?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Britain\u2019s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, the world\u2019s biggest technology companies have said as ministers push to enact the new restrictions by next spring.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, YouTube and Snapchat have all criticised the ban, which was announced by Keir Starmer on Monday and would stop younger teenagers from using their services.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jun\/15\/social-media-ban-uk-under-16-starmer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b1558c17f6abf850f6562632712c2675198aa8a1\/145_0_1665_1332\/master\/1665.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8438275e01cc2555017cb4e53dad6403\" title=\"Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK\" \/>Meta, YouTube and Snapchat say ban, which would stop children using their platforms, will drive them to \u2018less safe services\u2019<\/p>\n<p>UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nHow will the ban work?<br \/>\nUK parents: how do you feel about the ban?<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, the world\u2019s biggest technology companies have said as ministers push to enact the new restrictions by next spring.<br \/>\nMeta, YouTube and Snapchat have all criticised the ban, which was announced by Keir Starmer on Monday and would stop younger teenagers from using their services. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, YouTube and Snapchat say ban, which would stop children using their platforms, will drive them to \u2018less safe services\u2019 UK politics live \u2013 latest updates How will the ban work? UK parents: how do you feel about the ban? Britain\u2019s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/social-media-firms-hit-back-as-starmer-announces-ban-for-under-16s-in-uk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23525,"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\/23524"}],"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=23524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}