‘Social media should only start at 16’


Easy targets: Children watching a video on TikTok. — AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star

PETALING JAYA: A minimum age of 16 should be set for children’s access to social media with parental permission required till the age of 18, says Suhakam in response to government findings that even primary school pupils have TikTok accounts.

The calls for stricter enforcement to keep children off social media comes after the US Congress started hearings over how children have been harmed or died from the abuse they encountered on these platforms.

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