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Most Americans Don’t Want Youths Under 16 To Use Social Media Platforms

Independent Journal Review

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July 2, 2026

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Most Americans Don’t Want Youths Under 16 To Use Social Media Platforms

The vast majority of Americans back banning social media for children under the age of 16, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday.

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Off The Press

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· Jul 2, 2026

Most Americans don’t want youths under 16 on social media platforms

The vast majority of Americans back banning social media for children under the age of 16, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday. Almost 6 in 10 U.S. adults support a social media ban for children under 16 years old, the survey suggests. Meanwhile, roughly one-in-five respondents oppose such a ban and about []...Click to read more

Pew Research Center

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· Jul 1, 2026

Majority of Americans support banning social media for kids under 16

Across major demographic and partisan groups, more Americans support than oppose banning those under 16 from using social media.

Irish Tech News

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· Jun 30, 2026

Teens in UCD study say disturbing social media content ‘stays in the back of my mind all day’ 

Young people know they are training the algorithms and want more social media control, UCD study finds A new study from the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at UCD has found that teenagers are frustrated by social media algorithms and feel absent from discussions about content and regulation. Five focus groups with 87 []

TheJournal.ie

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· Jun 23, 2026

Kelly Earley: Social media bans for teens make the internet a worse place for all of us

Keeping teenagers off social sounds like a noble pursuit, but it risks a drop in standards for all other internet users.

The Hill

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· Jul 1, 2026

More than half of Americans support banning social media for youth: Survey

A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows that more than half of Americans support a ban on social media for those under the age of 16. Survey results published Wednesday show 56 percent of American respondents said they support such a ban for adolescents, 21 percent opposed it and 23 percent were unsure....

Washington Examiner

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· Jul 1, 2026

Majority of Americans support under-16 social media ban, poll shows

A recent Pew Research Center survey found that most of the country backs a social media ban for children under 16. Six-in-10 U.S. adults support banning the use of social media for children under age 16, while only 1-in-5 oppose such a ban, according to the study, which surveyed 9,750 U.S. adults from May 26 []

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Related coverage for "Most Americans Don’t Want Youths Under 16 To Use Social Media Platforms": Off The Press — Most Americans don’t want youths under 16 on social media platforms. Pew Research Center — Majority of Americans support banning social media for kids under 16. Irish Tech News — Teens in UCD study say disturbing social media content ‘stays in the back of my mind all day’ . TheJournal.ie — Kelly Earley: Social media bans for teens make the internet a worse place for all of us. The Hill — More than half of Americans support banning social media for youth: Survey. Washington Examiner — Majority of Americans support under-16 social media ban, poll shows