Norway's prime minister proposes ban on social media access for young teens

Norway is joining Australia in banning under-age teens from social media, with legal liability landing on the platforms rather than parents. Lead with the accountability shift: age verification stops being a user problem and becomes Meta/TikTok/X's compliance cost. The mechanism matters — if big platforms are forced to verify ages in one mid-sized European country, the infrastructure spreads to the rest of the EU by default.