EU Sets Out Plans For Social Media Restrictions | Silicon UK Tech

The EU Commission will propose a bloc-wide minimum age for social media access after summer, including a potential harmonised delay for under-13s and gradual access thereafter contingent on platforms proving age-appropriateness and safety. The Commission is developing an age-verification app and separately enforcing Digital Services Act provisions against addictive design features like infinite scroll and algorithmic personalisation. If you build social products for Europe, you now have a hard regulatory deadline: prove your platform is safe for teenagers or lose under-16 users entirely. The age-verification app being built by the Commission means you cannot rely on self-policing, and your product design—infinite scroll, autoplay, algorithmic feeds—is now a compliance liability, not a feature.