{"id":305231,"date":"2026-02-19T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305231\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:38:09","slug":"why-is-ireland-restricting-social-media-for-under-16s-and-has-it-worked-in-australia-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305231\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ireland restricting social media for under-16s? And has it worked in Australia? &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiggFBVV95cUxNTUFaXzd5Tm52dFYzVWZSYU5mLTZibFJSeFl4M0hEdkFNdTRRN0tZcnNVbWVlV2g4MzRzdWtBYUNHZGNnSzgySW52V2UxVHpKRXYtNVBXMk1sXzdoeHd4UTdzTGtwT0tYNnlrcWFVcW1XRmlGY0dMOEMyNmZSWk5ISG1B?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why is Ireland restricting social media for under-16s? And has it worked in Australia?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxNZ01nQml2NjhGdEU2U2RoMk1XbjZrQm85di1tYkJEUGJZVl9GMFo3dThJNjZ6VEZ0eGtfUkc0MDBVSXJpZ3JCVGFnSDljYTVRWmRxbnVDYzBiLVVmSndYd0Q3S3k4QlZ0TXVzSnZENTV1eTJqOFJJZ3ZQbk5kQ0FMTGpwZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Govt working with other EU countries on social media ban<\/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":"Why is Ireland restricting social media for under-16s? And has it worked in Australia?&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalGovt working with other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19226,4103,143882,61,60,410,43,58,99822],"class_list":["post-305231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-big-tech","tag-children","tag-computer-says-no","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-news","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305231","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=305231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}