New Greece law bans social media for under-15s

Greece’s parliament passed a law on Friday banning children under 15 from social media, joining a growing number of countries imposing curbs on young people’s use of the apps. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced plans for the ban in April, taking to TikTok — one of the most popular social networks with young people in Greece — to explain the “difficult but necessary” measure. After a heated debate in a parliamentary session that started on Thursday and stretched into Friday, Mitsotakis’s conservative New Democracy party used its majority to pass the bill, which no other parties…