House of Lords backs legislation to ban social media for children under 16

Britain’s House of Lords voted 261–150 to add an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would ban children under 16 from accessing social media within a year unless the House of Commons removes the provision. The legislation also orders chief medical officers to publish guidance for parents, explores raising the digital age of consent, restricts addictive platform design choices, and considers phone curfews; the report summarizes parliamentary debate citing evidence of mental-health harms and opposing views about causation.