{"id":86927,"date":"2026-03-26T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86927"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:08:22","slug":"uk-hundreds-of-teenagers-to-trial-social-media-bans-as-part-of-government-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/uk-hundreds-of-teenagers-to-trial-social-media-bans-as-part-of-government-test\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Hundreds of teenagers to trial social media bans as part of government test"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/2e94\/live\/3ea9d2f0-1614-11f1-9697-634d5add2261.jpg\" alt=\"over the shoulder view of a person holding a mobile phone. on screen they are selecting from a series of social media apps, including YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and X.\" width=\"567\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hundreds of teenagers are going to take part in a trial, where they will test different types of social media bans on their devices.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/cx29nlkwk1do\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hundreds of teenagers are going to take part in a trial, where they will test different types of social media bans on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kids-on-phone.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86928,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86927\/revisions\/86928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}