UK 16- and 17-year-olds to be encouraged to follow midnight social media curfew

The UK government is encouraging 16 and 17-year-olds to follow a social media curfew from midnight to 6am starting next spring. This initiative, part of Labour's strategy to protect young people from online harms and sleep disruption, involves default blocks on certain apps. While the curfew is not mandatory and can be overridden, it extends previous plans to entirely ban under-16s from platforms such as TikTok and Snapchat to ensure the safety of the next generation.