EU Moves Toward Age Limits on Social Media and AI Chatbots for Children

The European Union is preparing a bloc-wide child-safety push that would bar children under 13 from social media and place supervised limits on older teens' access to social platforms and AI chatbots. The plan, outlined by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the European Union speech, would be developed through a proposed Kids Act and still requires debate and approval by the EU's 27 member states.