The rules we think we have already introduced don’t really work
Social media does no one any favours, apart from its owners. Photo: Getty
The EU’s promise was supposed to be simple: one set of rules for big companies. But when it comes to children and social media, it has been a tangled mess.
There’s little sign of that changing. Several regimes, laws, bans and regulations are being sprayed around in the hope that something might work.