{"id":641959,"date":"2026-06-16T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641959\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:57:11","slug":"five-big-questions-about-the-uks-under-16s-social-media-ban-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641959\/","title":{"rendered":"Five big questions about the UK&#039;s under-16s social media ban &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBud2VyYk9aSmZYanI2T2k5dVcySTFtRjFSQ01lUllpbUNZN3M3YXg1cUJOR0VrSE9aRHppNFVFa3U3dGtjeEh4cE1ZMjhPVVBnUEd4ZnI2UHB6Zw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Five big questions about the UK&#8217;s under-16s social media ban<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTE1BWjZ0QkdCSGlHX3c2YTZhUjU3SE81LUdlUlBleG9UR3B5bXhIQkVBOXh2ekZzVXUyWHN0T0NyR1BmUEg3NEFSdDNxNGtmMkk0UEtULWJJeDUweVRz?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Father of murdered teenager welcomes under-16s social media ban<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxQblkwTFN6SE5NVXFfbk9xMGpTN3Z0cGN0X3lSVTZsdk0tQ2w1Q3JDVE1oM3hLV1NzQVJfZkJNYWlqOExjQWpiRFU1Z1Q3b3hZRGJKM2toQ05kdUh5UkdJT0VIcGhidDMwOWlnM3VHVlNGSlBTT291OFV4NUN4MzlTeEhxU2tBMzFWLWU1Y3lvSWtPU2JVbGIzTGlB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK social media ban could cut lifeline for disabled children, campaigners warn<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0AFBVV95cUxOelp5S3pMdFFXSUZjT0xtVGE2b1cyUl9PM0Fzd2NnczR1ZTFOaGZ4alhIcGJOcW41RzQwVUpaN1E2R1BwcjN6YTVJWlhQRUtxclV0ZXpzNGlGeVl3dGRxSmt0QjQ0bmtselp3LVQ1OGFsX3JCb05QSG5waUtzNEE0dnhwX1RtN1lGSnBVLXgtRlo0NXBlVlBtRWJBTzN5dGJHcnFybUczbTU4X0gzbC0tVS1uXzFkQ2hlNTNBdW5PZ0RyYWRjWGNGSHVtY3g2OUdr?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;GOV.UK<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxNMzY0dEFWMzhuMjQtblBjWUpkSWNQdWh4YVB2Z3BPNFMyOHl1WEFxOTdHYkxnQmtuLTl4QktJZEhVRk5NWkZwLTU0d0piNnBBbTZJRmRqUm5qaXZNZ3JJSE1qUmFlZWRvYkwzejF1eHBGb1ZWZ2NnbjlEUl9ZY0thZGNyaXZndzBEUkl4UmFGOGdFZWtuRTBKdlNKbklBd2JQeW1tdm5hV01FUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Letters: Banning social media for under-16s is a superficial response to the harms of online culture<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five big questions about the UK&#8217;s under-16s social media ban&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCFather of murdered teenager welcomes under-16s social media ban&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCUK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641959","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\/641959","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=641959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}