India should consider age-based limits for social media, chief economic adviser says

The Chief Economic Adviser has called on the ?government to set age-based limits on access to social media apps to ?counter “digital addiction”, cautioning against children’s use of platforms in the largest user market for Meta and YouTube. Such a shift would pull India in line with a growing global trend, after Australia became the first nation last year to ban social media for children younger than 16. On Monday, France’s National Assembly backed legislation to ban children under 15 from social media and Britain, Denmark and Greece are studying the issue. The adviser, V. Anantha ?Nageswaran, recommended in India’s…