{"id":90516,"date":"2026-06-16T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/which-social-media-platforms-will-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-the-uk-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:43:40","slug":"which-social-media-platforms-will-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-the-uk-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/which-social-media-platforms-will-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-the-uk-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Which social media platforms will be banned for under-16s in the UK? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of children in the UK will be forced off social media after the government announced it would ban under-16s <!--more--> from accessing a range of platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Apps including TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram will become inaccessible for children, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.<\/p>\n<p>Tech companies including Meta, Snapchat and YouTube warned a blanket ban would move children into more unsafe online environments.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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>Millions of children in the UK will be forced off social media after the government announced it would ban under-16s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90532,"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-90516","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\/90516","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=90516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}