Adrian Weckler

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

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.

Now, that's an earthquake for TikTok.

And so the ramifications for that, if that preliminary decision is confirmed, which it will be, I think.

But if it is, TikTok is going to have to either change its recommender system or leave the EU.

Now, I don't know.

Maybe they'll fight it.

They probably will fight it.

And maybe it will take years.

That is the way to deal with it.

That's the only thing that the tech companies actually feared.

So the European Commission is doing something similar with Meta.

Another preliminary decision, it found that Meta does not keep, does not successfully keep under 13s off its Facebook and Instagram apps and that it's addicting them.

OK, similar recommendations and requirements to change their systems.

Now, that is what they, that's what the big tech companies fear most.

We have quite a lot of evidence in Ireland already that bans don't work and very specifically

In Ireland, as in most countries, you are not allowed to use social media if you're under 13.

You can take it as being the law, if you like.

Now, there's an organization called Cyber Safe Kids, which conducts a poll every year, 9,000 primary and secondary school kids.

And every year, it's pretty much the same thing.

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