RECAP/RECORDING - To ban or not to ban – How to protect children online? isoclive.substack.com/p/dc-cride-b... #ChildRights #OnlineSafety #AgeAssurance #IGF2026 @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @ecpat.bsky.social @intgovforum.bsky.social
Sonia Livingstone
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LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
So the UN has launched an AI for Good Global Commission. But it consists of state & industry reps, without any civil society or academic voices. What a depressing missed opportunity. @sonialivingstone.bsky.social, quoted here, is among signatories to an open letter complaining the exclusion.
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Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel.bsky.social · last mo.I've spent the last four days running around an airless expo hall in Geneva trying to figure out what the UN thinks it can do to tame AI. Here's what I've learned for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/can-the-unit...
Brilliant presentations: algorithmised girlhood @chiarafehr.bsky.social EdTech Sandra w Kim & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social & Ambient AI @jessicaringrose.bsky.social Asli w Marc @socialmediaandsociety.org @harrytdyer.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @lsemedia.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social
Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? @giovannamas.bsky.social, Brian O'Neill & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @eukidsonline.bsky.social the EU should regulate platforms, not restrict children’s access to digital life @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
Why mandating and enforcing EU regulation is preferable to a social media ban
Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? Rather than restricting children’s access to digital life, the EU should regulate platforms instead.
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Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? ✍ Elisabeth Staksrud @giovannamas.bsky.social Brian O'Neill & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @eukidsonline.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Why mandating and enforcing EU regulation is preferable to a social media ban
Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? Rather than restricting children’s access to digital life, the EU should regulate platforms instead.
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Listening to "IGF DC Webinar: To Ban or Not to Ban – How to Protect Children Online?" What a treat to have both @sonialivingstone.bsky.social and Amanda Third speaking, such a wealth and depth of experience and not a clutched pearl in sight ❤️ 🤓
Call for Abstracts! Submit your abstract for the upcoming conference, New Directions in Social Media Research: 7-8 December 2026, Cambridge, UK with keynote speakers @sonialivingstone.bsky.social, @rogierk.bsky.social, and Dr. Henry Shevlin Deadline: August 2 sites.google.com/view/social-...
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A two-day conference bringing together international researchers studying technology-mediated social experiences, to explore new directions in research, emerging methods, and evidence-based policy.
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LSE Department of Media and Communications. A new study co-authored by world-leading #childrights expert Prof @sonialivingstone.bsky.social reveals 1 in 6 internet-using #children across #Africa & #Asia experience tech-facilitated #abuse: "The problem is global, and so must be the solutions."
LSE Department of Media and Communications@lsemedia.bsky.social · 3mo agoA new study co-authored by world-leading #childrights expert Prof @sonialivingstone.bsky.social reveals 1 in 6 internet-using #children across #Africa & #Asia experience tech-facilitated #abuse: "The problem is global, and so must be the solutions." 📖 Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
How has #BigTech avoided accountability, and how do we drive real change? Join Baroness #BeebanKidron, @sonialivingstone.bsky.social & Peter Wanless for the online launch of Kidron's powerful new book, Users. 🗓️ 25 June 4-5pm 👇 Sign up: www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/book-...
“Why would we go for the simple solution of just banning children from a digital world, and why would we not then implement the thoughtful child rights’-respecting solution [of making it safer online], which would be better for children and for everybody?” @sonialivingstone.bsky.social
Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 4mo ago“What will we ban? How will we ban them? What will we provide for children when we have banned them? How will we even know if we have banned them? And what about the children who find the workarounds?” 💡 @sonialivingstone.bsky.social on social media age ban #commsky www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
‘The future of children in a digital world, and particularly their chance to flourish in it, remains in doubt…’ Ella Rhodes reports on the UK ‘social media ban’, with comment from @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social & more. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
‘The future of children in a digital world, and particularly their chance to flourish in it, remains in doubt’ | BPS
Ella Rhodes reports on the UK ‘social media ban’.
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🎬 Missed last week's expert briefing on child safety online? The replay is live! @sonialivingstone.bsky.social chaired this IPIE session on platform harms and the urgent actions needed to protect children online. 🎞️ Watch here: youtu.be/JGi5EiCsVFg?... #ChildSafety #OnlineHarm
Child Safety Online: Breaking the Digital Exploitation Cycle | IPIE Webinar
Exploitation by Design: Disrupting Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Technology is enabling child sexual exploitation and abuse at a scale and speed that existing responses…
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“What will we ban? How will we ban them? What will we provide for children when we have banned them? How will we even know if we have banned them? And what about the children who find the workarounds?” 💡 @sonialivingstone.bsky.social on social media age ban #commsky www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
EU must go beyond ‘binary yes or no ban’ on social media, top official says
Decisionmakers tell POLITICO that social media ban for kids is ‘not the simple route.’
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Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
“#Children are curious & excited, & want to experiment & explore what #AI can do” @sonialivingstone.bsky.social member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on #ArtificialIntelligence discusses how she will ensure #childrensrights are heard in the age of AI 👇 unric.org/en/protectin...
Protecting children in the age of AI
Sonia Livingstone, member of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, shares how AI is transforming children's lives.
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ICYMI. LSE Department of Media and Communications. @sonialivingstone.bsky.social is featured in The Guardian as part of the expert group drafting the UK’s first national #screentime guidance. She warns against content designed to "maximise hold and attention" through addictive algorithms:
LSE Department of Media and Communications@lsemedia.bsky.social · 5mo ago@sonialivingstone.bsky.social is featured in The Guardian as part of the expert group drafting the UK’s first national #screentime guidance. She warns against content designed to "maximise hold and attention" through addictive algorithms: www.theguardian.com/society/2026... #Digital #Parenting
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social is featured in The Guardian as part of the expert group drafting the UK’s first national #screentime guidance. She warns against content designed to "maximise hold and attention" through addictive algorithms: www.theguardian.com/society/2026... #Digital #Parenting
What does new guidance in the UK say about screen time for children?
Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid ‘mounting evidence’ of harmful impact
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Do traditional media theories still hold up in a digital world? 🌐 Join #BartCammaerts at for his book launch, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory. 🗓️ Tues 31 March 6.30-8pm 📍 LSE + Online 🎟️ Register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1 #LSEMedia #MediaTheory #London @routledgebooks.bsky.social
👏 Delighted to announce that @sonialivingstone.bsky.social has been appointed to the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. 🌐 The first global scientific panel on AI brings together 40 experts to study AI’s impact and guide policy with evidence: www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...
Professor Sonia Livingstone appointed to United Nations Panel on AI
Professor Sonia Livingstone joins the UN’s first global scientific panel on AI, uniting 40 experts to guide evidence‑based understanding of how AI is reshaping our lives. Learn more.
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🚨 And we're live! Chair @sonialivingstone.bsky.social discussing tension between pedagogy, profit & policy in #EdTech. 📺 Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNG7... Get involved with tonight's conversation using #LSEEvents @5rightsfound.bsky.social #AI #EdTech #childrights #education
Today is #SaferInternetDay The DIORA study looked at what young people do online and how it makes them feel The animation below designed with young people turns the findings from the UKRI-funded study into bite-sized practical tips looking at how these experiences shape mental health and wellbeing
🌐 On #SaferInternetDay, the #EUKids Online team shares new findings on how children use and think about generative AI 🤖👧🧒 — moving from hype to action. 🔗 Read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202... #GenerativeAI #Childhood #DigitalSafety @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @mariyastoilova.bsky.social
Time to move from hype to action, now that AI is already part of childhood - Media@LSE
On Safer Internet Day 2026, the EU Kids Online Team detail some of the findings of their new report on children and their use of generative AI.
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This new piece by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social is brilliant - and essential reading on the damage to the social texture that unbounded AI use threatens to do: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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👨🏫 EdTech is transforming education. Join us next Thursday 6.30pm as Sandra El Gemayel, #BaronessKidron, Julian Sefton-Green & Rhys Spence discuss what a #childrights-respecting, pedagogically-sound vision for #EdTech looks like. See more 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/events/edtech @sonialivingstone.bsky.social
EdTech at the crossroads of pedagogy vs profit | A discussion
6.30pm Thurs 20 Nov |Sandra El Gemayel Baroness Kidron Julian Sefton-Green Rhys Spence| Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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The UK shouldn’t rush to a social media ban for children under 16 @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
The UK shouldn’t rush to a social media ban for children under 16 | LSE British Politics
Australia's ban of social media for under 16s has re-ignited the same debate in the UK. Sonia Livingstone argues that more evidence is needed before such a ban.
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💥New | Reducing online harms requires radical transparency ✍️ @bloggeronpole.bsky.social #OnlineSafety #Regulation #SocialMedia
Reducing online harms requires radical transparency - LSE Impact
A realistic appraisal of social media’s entanglement with US interests and radical transparency are necessary for any regulation to be effective.
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Thanks to everyone who joined our How is Gen Z faring? event & to our wonderful speakers for such thoughtful contributions - @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @pravpatalay.bsky.social @emilytanner.bsky.social @careyoppenheim.bsky.social 📺Watch the event + slides: ow.ly/GWP650XHvLe
🤖 As AI becomes part of kids’ lives, excitement meets concern — about safety, fairness & bias. 🤔 Can AI literacy really empower #children in a digital world? 🌍 Read insights from @mariyastoilova.bsky.social & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social for #GlobalMILWeek2025 🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
AI literacy in an unequal world: pitfalls and promises - Media@LSE
Can AI literacy deliver? LSE's Mariya Stoilova and Professor Sonia Livingstone discuss their latest findings from the DFC project on AI and children’s rights.
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Having kids 10 years apart gives me some interesting access to evolving norms. I'm very pleased to see the 5 Cs for media use being used now in the pediatric handouts. Kudos to @sonialivingstone.bsky.social especially for pushing this forward.
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social spoke at the International Meeting on children’s rights & #AI: “We must move beyond safety-by-design & privacy-by-design to embrace #ChildRights by Design.” 📜 Declaration of Intent presented to #PopeLeo XIV: lnkd.in/d__K65y7 #ChildRights #DigitalSafety #ChildDignity
