Today: Trump’s surgeon general pick called for banning social media for teens President-elect Donald Trump’s surgeon general choice called for banning social media for all teenagers and young children in a July TV appearance,

The Australian government’s plan to ban children from social media platforms including X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram until their 16th birthdays is politically popular. The opposition party says it would have done the same after winning elections due within months if the government hadn’t moved first.

Global tech giants including Meta, TikTok and Google have heavily criticized Australian legislation to ban children under 16 from accessing social media platforms, setting the stage for a policy fight as the government tries to push the bill through parliament this week.

An Australian-style ban on children using social media before the age of 16 is backed by more than two thirds of the British public, an exclusive poll for The Telegraph has revealed. In a survey of more than 2,