Warnings over social media use by children

Two leading online safety experts have called on the Government to hold social media companies accountable for underage usage on their platforms.

Underaged drinking is not condoned or allowed, but the underage use of social media is rampant and accepted, they told an Oireachtas meeting.

Professors Barry O’Sullivan and Mary Aiken said they want to state “unequivocally” their opposition to the Government’s decision to set the digital age of consent at 13.