{"id":383822,"date":"2026-01-22T08:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383822\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:32:06","slug":"musician-casey-lowery-backs-under-16-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383822\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician Casey Lowery backs under-16 social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s first social media ban for young people took effect in Australia in December 2025<\/a>, prompting other countries, including the UK, to consider following suit.<\/p>\n

Lowery, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, said he “does everything” on social media to promote his music.<\/p>\n

“It’s the only free marketing you can do,” he said.<\/p>\n

After getting his first taste of social media at 15, Lowery said he began to gain a following in 2022 when he started to post short, funny songs reacting to TikTok videos.<\/p>\n

Lowery’s three most\u2011watched TikTok videos have reached 54.8 million, 33.1 million and 24.5 million views.<\/p>\n

“I think they (the government) should ban it. I don’t think there are any problems in banning it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There are huge pros to social media. Young people are able to learn on social media, people are more connected to news nowadays, for example.”<\/p>\n

“The negatives are so crazy, especially for a young brain. It’s so addictive.”<\/p>\n

Lowery, who said he had seen an older family member scrolling on their phone for hours, added: “I just don’t think they need to be on social media at all. Why would an under 16-year-old need to be on social media?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world’s first social media ban for young people took effect in Australia in December 2025, prompting other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}