{"id":73594,"date":"2026-02-16T19:29:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/new-rules-on-social-media-could-target-doomscrolling-and-ban-for-under-16s-starmer-says-uk-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:20:38","slug":"new-rules-on-social-media-could-target-doomscrolling-and-ban-for-under-16s-starmer-says-uk-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/new-rules-on-social-media-could-target-doomscrolling-and-ban-for-under-16s-starmer-says-uk-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"New rules on social media could target \u2018doomscrolling\u2019 and ban for under-16s, Starmer says \u2013 UK politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1c944256f4b09fdd4a75eb808d7f3593ee172cae\/721_0_7216_5773\/master\/7216.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctbGl2ZS5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=dc40e4c81c15b61bae8fbca2fed12a57\" alt=\"New rules on social media could target \u2018doomscrolling\u2019 and ban for under-16s, Starmer says \u2013 UK politics live\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Politics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">New rules on social media could target \u2018doomscrolling\u2019 and ban for under-16s, Starmer says \u2013 UK politics live<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Prime minister says outcomes of consultation on social media ban should be implemented quickly as technology minister says Australia-style ban is not inevitableIn his Q&amp;A with journalists, Keir Starmer was also asked to respond to a report by the BBC\u2019s James Landale saying he is looking at plans to raise defence spending to 3% of GDP by the end of this parliament. In the past Starmer has just said that he would like to do this at some point in the next parliament.In his reply, Starmer said that at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend he was arguing that the UK, and Europe as a whole, needs to \u201cstep up\u201d.We want a just and lasting peace, but that will not extinguish the Russian threat, and we need to be alert to that, because that\u2019s going to affect every single person in this room, every single person in this country, so<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/feb\/16\/social-media-online-safety-act-keir-starmer-uk-politics-live-news-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics New rules on social media could target \u2018doomscrolling\u2019 and ban for under-16s, Starmer says \u2013 UK politics live Prime minister says outcomes of consultation on social media ban should be implemented quickly as technology minister says Australia-style ban is not inevitableIn his Q&amp;A with journalists, Keir Starmer was also asked to respond to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75916,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73594\/revisions\/75916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}