{"id":287276,"date":"2026-02-08T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287276\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:34:19","slug":"ireland-examines-frances-draft-law-to-ban-children-under-16-from-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287276\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland examines France\u2019s draft law to ban children under 16 from social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Pilot plan on age verification could be in place later this year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Communications Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/111864624.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Communications Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Attorney General is to examine a draft French law on social media use, as Ireland seeks to restrict social media use among children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Communications Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan is seeking to bring forward age-verification plans to Cabinet next month, to strengthen online safety for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pilot plan on age verification could be in place later this year Communications Minister Patrick O\u2019Donovan. Photo: PA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[986,9146,2244,1814,61,60,43,15645,2042,2846],"class_list":["post-287276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-australia","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eu","tag-france","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-patrick-odonovan","tag-senan-molony","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}