{"id":26279,"date":"2026-08-25T12:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=26279"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:37:57","slug":"new-zealand-plans-social-media-ban-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/08\/25\/new-zealand-plans-social-media-ban-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Plans Social Media Ban For Under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">The New Zealand government on Monday announced plans to ban social media for children under 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The bill would require social media platforms the government deemed \u201chigh risk\u201d to take reasonable steps to check that users are over 16 by using existing account information, facial age estimation, digital ID services and formal ID.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The law would cover platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Education Minister Erica Stanford said the government was \u201ctaking action to protect young people online, backing parents and holding Big Tech\u201d accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand government on Monday announced plans to ban social media for children under 16. The bill would require social media platforms the government deemed \u201chigh risk\u201d to take reasonable steps to check that users are over 16 by using existing account information, facial age estimation, digital ID services and formal ID. The law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26283,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279\/revisions\/26283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}