{"id":304355,"date":"2026-02-18T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304355\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:15:12","slug":"government-confirms-plan-to-restrict-social-media-for-teenagers-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304355\/","title":{"rendered":"Government confirms plan to restrict social media for teenagers &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE9YeXB5Q1ozdkhnT0dOU1dIdTFzbC02ZUlxS3VVcTdkMzdNUHJLSGpIV0d0Rmk0UklJYVlPQ1F2NndJaE5UZ29ub2RJcDVDOG5BSTE2S05GWmlFcHk3ZTZZMTltTXZtS2xsTDVwaTBFd3cyRUo5WFhERG1rWQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government confirms plan to restrict social media for teenagers<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxNZ01nQml2NjhGdEU2U2RoMk1XbjZrQm85di1tYkJEUGJZVl9GMFo3dThJNjZ6VEZ0eGtfUkc0MDBVSXJpZ3JCVGFnSDljYTVRWmRxbnVDYzBiLVVmSndYd0Q3S3k4QlZ0TXVzSnZENTV1eTJqOFJJZ3ZQbk5kQ0FMTGpwZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social media ban without evidence would face challenges<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxNVlpBUFNBUlREWWk0T2ZZZEhOM1lLS1p5anVtd3JRc21TR0hFRW1yX094bFBzbjhvWUEwczE0RGlEWDZrbUlMWW1IMDNyU3B6NW1VMW03SnVxeW9wLVJ0V29uM2hqUFJYdG9HSUtucV9ZWjZZMXhIMFh1UlpsRUwwUTFzQ25Xc1c3Vk1pN3ZDTEwxcVpWT0FPSTlqeHlGQW5EODVEY0FTWjMwSEJtNUFjTm0yU09wUXVLSC1Qd29LT0w?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New digital and AI strategy to confirm plans for under-16s social media ban<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE5xTE9pTTNBT0FhaEZvelgxUGg0ZlVYdEZncHprLUozenNwUWZJSjhUdm04d18yRkZTTG54R0lMS3hVU3k3S0NMck1DajVhMzdmSVd2Rm9vT1NrQVV6cWVJVl92RzNhZGJ1WS1VQzZEOEtueGNxVk9lSE92cWhWTG8?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walsh welcomes plan for social media ban<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Midwest Radio<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxPdW9jelFNRVR0X2VEQ2dZTV9LUXJacmd1QU92WnlCQ2FaS09OMG56Z1ZRYk9zNVBFTVd1VzJJbGQ5bTU1MTRxMGo4eXBzZjhMV21vaURGeUtlcjdxbkRwOGVQOEc3WWF6YUNUZVhjUEczYXlUdTA3UHNTQ3lHOWd0WkRmZHk2a2VYZE9YcWRVT0xVTVhEMzdSTng3MVVWUDlyamdkOTd0NVk2UQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Confirmation of under-16s social media ban expected today<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BreakingNews.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government confirms plan to restrict social media for teenagers&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalSocial media ban without evidence would face challenges&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ieNew digital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133951,42,43,58,99822,40,38,41,39,143624],"class_list":{"0":"post-304355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-age-restrictions","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-social-media","12":"tag-social-media-ban","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-under-16s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304355","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=304355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}