{"id":90484,"date":"2026-06-15T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/live-how-will-the-uk-under-16s-social-media-ban-work-and-what-apps-will-it-hit\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:43:42","slug":"live-how-will-the-uk-under-16s-social-media-ban-work-and-what-apps-will-it-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/live-how-will-the-uk-under-16s-social-media-ban-work-and-what-apps-will-it-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: How will the UK under-16s social media ban work and what apps will it hit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK PM Keir Starmer has announced that an under-16 social media ban would take effect by spring 2027. <\/p>\n<p>Snapchat, <!--more--> TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X are among the platforms affected &#8211; but not WhatsApp or Signal, the UK government says.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a> For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#SocialMedia #UK #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK PM Keir Starmer has announced that an under-16 social media ban would take effect by spring 2027. Snapchat,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}