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Proposal: 16-Year Age Limit for Social Media

by AI | 26.Nov 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Introduce a 16-year age limit for social media. This is what the EU Parliament wants, as it calls on the EU Commission to present a formal proposal following a vote.

Should young people be allowed to use social media? Photo: Elisa Schu/dpa

Strasbourg – Ahead of a 16-year age limit for social media. At least that is what the EU Parliament wants, according to a vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

So far, however, it is only a call to the EU Commission to present a formal proposal. In the Parliament’s call, which passed with 483 votes in favor and 92 against, it is included that young people down to 13 years old should be able to use social media, but only with parental consent.

“I am very pleased. This is the first time that the Parliament, the elected representatives, have come together to set demands that we can then push against the Commission, but also against the tech giants,” says Swedish MEP Adnan Dibrani (Social Democrats).

(November 26)