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The Big Tech Show · The uncomfortable truth about banning under 16s from social media · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

So the European Commission earlier this year came out with a couple of rulings that have really shaken the big tech companies.

They're really worried about it.

So one was TikTok.

It essentially found on a preliminary basis, preliminary ruling that TikTok, that its algorithms addict kids and adults and the algorithms must be changed permanently.

Hello and you're welcome to The Big Tech Show with me, Adrian Weckler.

Now, the UK says it's going to ban social media for under-16s and that means Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube, not WhatsApp, not Signal and not YouTube Kids.

And there's a whole anomaly there which we can get into.

But we're going to talk about this, about the idea of a social media ban for young teens.

It's quite popular in Ireland.

A lot of surveys show that parents in particular and in particular of young kids

like the idea of a social media ban on under-16s.

And Ireland, in fact, says that it's looking at a ban.

Taoiseach Michael Martin, asked by reporters after the News of the UK ban broke, he said that Ireland would look at a ban, but that Ireland prefers to proceed in lockstep with the European Commission.

What Ireland is actually doing is

is it hopes to use the digital wallet app, which, by the way, is coming at the end of this year.

I'm not sure if you knew that or not.

It's going to be something that will be on your phone, like your Android or the wallet on your iPhone that you pull Ticketmaster tickets and things like that on.

And the idea is you're going to be able to put your driver's license and other state ID.

And Ireland's idea is to link that with...

social media use for age verification.

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