Overview
- Turkey’s parliament, which passed the bill Wednesday, sent the under‑15 restriction to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a decision within 15 days.
- Norway announced Friday it will introduce a bill by the end of 2026 to bar under‑16s from social media and make companies verify users’ ages.
- Australia’s national ban took effect on December 10, 2025, and officials say platforms have deactivated or removed more than 4.7 million under‑16 accounts.
- Meta is courting parents with new Teen Accounts controls, including an Insights tab that shows topics teens ask Meta AI about, as platforms expand age checks and supervision tools.
- Implementation is proving hard, with privacy trade‑offs and easy workarounds like VPNs, while policy paths diverge as UK MPs rejected an under‑16 ban this week and several countries and US states pursue new limits.