French President Emmanuel Macron said he plans to ban social media for children younger than 15. Macron said in a post on X that the move was based on a recommendation from the experts on the Screens Commission,

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the age of 15 after a fatal stabbing at a school in eastern France,

Macron said late Tuesday that France "can't wait" any longer in banning social media for children under 15, in response to the fatal stabbing of a teaching assistant at a high school in the suburbs of Paris. The stabbing came one month after a teenager killed a student in a similar incident at a high school in Nantes.