French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: CollectedPARIS, France, Jan 24, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron onSaturday vowed to speed up the legislative process for a social media ban onunder-15s, with the goal of enacting it in September this year. He said he wanted it to be "applied from the start of the next school year",in September. Macron said that, on top of a ban on children under 15 accessing socialmedia, he also backed a ban on pupils having on mobile phones in schools. "The brains of our children and our adolescents are not for sale or formanipulating, not by US platforms, not by Chinese algorithms," the presidentsaid.
