Overview
- The government said it will present a school‑focused proposal by the end of August after announcing the plan Monday, with the aim of deciding rules before the Aug. 31 start of the 2026–2027 school year.
- International experts invited to the presidential conference urged removing phones for the full school day and raising the minimum age to open social‑media accounts to 16, though any age change would require separate legal steps and technical fixes.
- Education officials called the issue a public‑health problem and cited research and internal Meta findings to argue that platform design features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, recommendation algorithms and constant notifications foster compulsive use and harm adolescents.
- The Secretariat of Education will run regional forums and school assemblies — including meetings on Aug. 19 in Nuevo León, Sept. 3 in Chiapas and Sept. 17 in Guerrero — to gather input from parents, teachers, students and specialists before broader platform rules are drafted.
- Experts and civil society warn that bans alone will not be enough and stress practical needs such as clear emergency exceptions, phone storage and supervision rules, teacher training, digital literacy and measures to avoid widening inequities or shifting harmful use to out‑of‑school time.