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Spain is moving toward banning minors from social media and pursuing stronger legal action against major platforms, Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Tuesday, S\u00e1nchez said<\/a> social media platforms have become a \u201cfailed state\u201d and argued that governments must take back control to protect children and enforce the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were told that social media would become a tool for global understanding and cooperation, a vehicle for freedom, transparency, and accountability,\u201d S\u00e1nchez said. \u201cBut the opposite has happened. Social media has become a failed state, a place where laws are ignored and crime is endured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e1nchez cited allegations involving major platforms, including the spread of disinformation, foreign interference in elections, and failures to prevent abuse involving minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust in the last year alone, TikTok has been accused of tolerating malicious accounts that shared AI-generated child abuse materials,\u201d S\u00e1nchez said. \u201cJust last week the owner of X, a migrant himself, used his personal account to amplify this information about the sovereign decision by my government, the regularization of 500,000 migrants. The same platform has allowed its AI group to generate illegal sexual content.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e1nchez also accused Instagram of being linked to allegations of spying on Android users and said Facebook has been used to spread misinformation and foreign interference during elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e1nchez said Spain will change its laws to hold social media executives legally accountable for violations on their platforms, including criminal liability for failing to remove illegal or hateful content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the government will also criminalize the algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal material, arguing that disinformation is created, promoted, and spread for profit and that platforms should no longer be allowed to \u201chide behind code.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spain will also introduce a system to measure and expose how platforms “fuel hate and polarization,” laying the groundwork for future legal and financial penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e1nchez said his government will ban social media access for minors under 16 and require platforms to implement effective age-verification systems. He added that Spain will work with prosecutors to investigate and pursue alleged violations by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spain\u2019s plan follows a similar law implemented recently in Australia, where social media accounts are banned for users under 16 and platforms face penalties if they fail to block minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters reported<\/a> Tuesday that Greece is also \u201cvery close\u201d to announcing a similar social media ban for children under 15, citing a senior government source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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