Banning under-16s from social media does not reach what drove the riots: the harm was adult-made and amplified by design…

The government has made an age limit its answer to a system it says is failing children. But the social-media harm on display in Belfast over the past week was made by adults and amplified by platform design, and an age gate reaches neither. The danger is not that the ban is wrong, but that restricting who may use these platforms will be mistaken for regulating how they rank and spread content. Keir Starmer has announced that under-16s will be ... Read more...