{"id":430198,"date":"2026-05-03T12:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430198\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:55:12","slug":"adrian-weckler-want-to-get-the-kids-off-social-media-nothing-compares-to-middle-class-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430198\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: Want to get the kids off social media? Nothing compares to middle-class peer review"},"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\">\nThe rules we think we have already introduced don\u2019t really work\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social media does no one any favours, apart from its owners. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages_1417550924.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)\">Social media does no one any favours, apart from its owners. Photo: Getty<\/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 EU\u2019s 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.<\/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)\">There\u2019s little sign of that changing. Several regimes, laws, bans and regulations are being sprayed around in the hope that something might work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rules we think we have already introduced don\u2019t really work Social media does no one any favours,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,72,823,61,542,60,1226,251,6116],"class_list":["post-430198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-business","tag-facebook","tag-ie","tag-instagram","tag-ireland","tag-meta","tag-technology-news","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430198","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=430198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}