{"id":288218,"date":"2026-07-06T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288218\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:46:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-study-banning-social-media-apps-for-kids-under-16-supported-by-most-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288218\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Study Banning Social Media Apps For Kids Under 16 Supported By Most Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The debate over kids and social media grows, as a new study shows most Americans are in support of banning social media apps.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2026\/07\/01\/majority-of-americans-support-banning-social-media-for-kids-under-16\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pew research survey <\/a>found nearly six in 10 adults support banning social media for children under 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The support also spans both major political parties but is strongest among adults between the ages of 30 and 49.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say that age group grew up alongside social media and has seen its impact firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also showed that support for age restrictions has grown steadily over the past three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate over kids and social media grows, as a new study shows most Americans are in support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-288218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}