New Zealand to consider banning children under 16 from social media

On Monday, The Guardian reported that New Zealand's prime minister, Christopher Luxon, says his party will introduce a bill to ban children under sixteen from social media. The proposed law would fine platforms up to ten percent of their global revenue for non-compliance, and would require them to verify users' ages using existing account information, facial recognition technology, and digital identity documents. The prime minister cited harm to a generation of children as the reason for the proposed ban.

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