{"id":46841,"date":"2026-02-16T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/starmer-pledges-crackdown-on-addictive-elements-of-social-media\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:57:52","slug":"starmer-pledges-crackdown-on-addictive-elements-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/starmer-pledges-crackdown-on-addictive-elements-of-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer pledges crackdown on &#8216;addictive elements&#8217; of social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The prime minister added that the government will &#8220;bring new powers that will give us the ability to crack down on the addictive elements of social media, stop the auto-play, the never-ending scrolling, that keeps our children hooked on their screens for hours, and stop kids getting around age limits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvg38x13x5yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister added that the government will &#8220;bring new powers that will give us the ability to crack down on the addictive elements of social media, stop the auto-play, the never-ending scrolling, that keeps our children hooked on their screens for hours, and stop kids getting around age limits&#8221;. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2667,1973,5103,2640,2976,153,961],"class_list":["post-46841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-addictive","tag-crackdown","tag-elements","tag-media","tag-pledges","tag-social","tag-starmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46843,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46841\/revisions\/46843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}