Overview

• President Macron said France will enforce a social media ban for under-15s within months if the EU does not adopt similar rules first.
• The proposal follows a 14-year-old’s fatal stabbing of a school assistant during a bag search at a middle school in Nogent on June 10.
• Authorities plan to require automated age-verification systems on social platforms and may classify some sites as equivalent to adult content.
• The European Commission is preparing a Digital Services Act age-check framework with France among five countries set to pilot the system.
• The government will ban online and offline knife sales to minors and is testing metal detectors to strengthen school security.