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The digital and technological sector asks for "technical adjustments" to the law for the protection of minors in digital environments in order to apply it

The pieces are already on the board and are moving. The Congress of Deputies has reactivated the Draft Law for the Protection of Minors in Digital Environments. The committee has been constituted and is expected to meet "soon" to begin working on the report of an initiative that keeps the...

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The ‘who’s who’ of the law that will ban the use of social media for minors under 16 years old: speakers and points to negotiate

Europe has its focus on the regulation of digital environments to shield the safety of young people, and one of the most transcendental decisions on the table is the prohibition of social media use for minors under 16 years old. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced that it...

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Macron promotes a European alliance to restrict networks to minors

The European Union is taking increasingly more steps in its fight to protect minors in digital environments, an area that has become one of the main regulatory concerns of the community bloc. This very week, the European Commission announced that its new application designed to ensure age verification is already...

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Goodbye to lying about age on the internet: Europe activates its definitive solution

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, set during her speech on the State of the Union in September the protection of minors in digital environments as one of the priorities of her second mandate. Thus, on this path, one of the solutions she is preparing to...

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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, at the Élysée FERNANDO CALVO

Sánchez joins the meeting driven by Macron to coordinate the veto of social networks to minors in the EU

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will participate this Thursday in a videoconference convened by the French leader, Emmanuel Macron, with the aim of advancing in greater coordination among European countries that are working on the prohibition of minors' access to social networks, according to sources from Moncloa told...

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The Congress reactivates the Law for the Protection of minors on the internet: hot spots, sectoral impact and real possibilities

This Tuesday, one of the priorities of the Government will get underway: the Bill for the Protection of Minors in Digital Environments. After the celebration of the Justice Commission at 11:30 a.m., the committee that will prepare the report will be constituted. The initiative includes the prohibition of social media...

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TikTok will invest 1 billion in a data center in Finland to reinforce the security of European users

The social network TikTok has announced an additional investment of 1 billion euros to build a second data center in Finland, aimed at serving its users in Europe. This new facility joins the center previously announced in 2025 in the same country and frames both investments within what the company...

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The Government will push forward in May the law that bans social media for minors under 16 years old and limits the rise of 'true crime'

The Executive plans to give the green light next May, in a Council of Ministers, to the draft Organic Law on Civil Protection of the Right to Honor, personal and family privacy, and one's own image. This future regulation will set the minimum age for using social networks at 16...

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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, at a NATO event Europa Press/Contacto/James Petermeier

Trump activates a global strategy against "anti-American propaganda": orders his embassies to coordinate and use X

The order appears in a cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and distributed to the U.S. diplomatic network. The document, to which The Guardian has had access, establishes a framework for action to respond to what Washington considers coordinated disinformation campaigns affecting its interests abroad. The instruction affects embassies...

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What have politicians posted to their social media this week?

Spanish politics is no longer fought solely in Congress. Social networks have consolidated as a new key space where political leaders build their narrative, combining institutional messages with more personal content to connect with an increasingly digitized citizenry. This change is not accidental. In a context of information saturation and less attention...

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Fifteen months in prison for spreading racist messages on social media

The Málaga Court has imposed a sentence of 15 months in prison on a man for disseminating on his social media profiles, accessible to the general public, xenophobic and racist messages directed against foreign people. With these publications, the convicted person intended "to stigmatize and denigrate" certain groups, in addition...

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Elections Castilla y León: this is how candidates use the networks to win your vote

Three weeks before the Castilla y León elections, the PSOE candidate, Carlos Martínez, did not appear among the 20 Castilian-Leonese politicians with the most Digital Power (the tool developed by Vinces and available in this media outlet). Three days before the polls open, he occupies seventh place, after a frantic...

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The digital and technological sector asks for "technical adjustments" to the law for the protection of minors in digital environments in order to apply it

The ‘who’s who’ of the law that will ban the use of social media for minors under 16 years old: speakers and points to negotiate

Macron promotes a European alliance to restrict networks to minors

Goodbye to lying about age on the internet: Europe activates its definitive solution

Sánchez joins the meeting driven by Macron to coordinate the veto of social networks to minors in the EU

The Congress reactivates the Law for the Protection of minors on the internet: hot spots, sectoral impact and real possibilities

TikTok will invest 1 billion in a data center in Finland to reinforce the security of European users

The Government will push forward in May the law that bans social media for minors under 16 years old and limits the rise of 'true crime'

Trump activates a global strategy against "anti-American propaganda": orders his embassies to coordinate and use X

What have politicians posted to their social media this week?

Fifteen months in prison for spreading racist messages on social media

Elections Castilla y León: this is how candidates use the networks to win your vote

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