{"id":229104,"date":"2026-01-26T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=229104"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:03:09","slug":"our-children-and-teens-brains-are-not-for-sale-macron-calls-for-ban-on-social-media-for-under-15s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/229104\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our children and teens\u2019 brains are not for sale\u2019: Macron calls for ban on social media for under-15s"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Children and teenagers in France under the age of 15 could be banned from social media as early as the next school year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2026\/01\/26\/france-could-ban-under-15s-from-social-media-within-months-heres-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes, citing President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>Macron said he asked lawmakers to speed up the process of passing legislation restricting social media access for under-15s, so it would take effect by the start of the school year this September.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our children and teens&rsquo; brains are not for sale,&rdquo; the French president said. &ldquo;Our children and teens&rsquo; emotions are not for sale, or to be manipulated &ndash; not by American platforms nor Chinese algorithms.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children and teenagers in France under the age of 15 could be banned from social media as early as the next school year, Euronews writes, citing President Emmanuel Macron. Macron said he asked lawmakers to speed up the process of passing legislation restricting social media access for under-15s, so it would take effect by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":229100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229105,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229104\/revisions\/229105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}