"So what is the dispute about, and why has it become so heated? Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Tuesday, Sanchez said that by banning social media for children under 16, Spain aimed to protect them from the digital Wild West. Currently, social media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok require users to be at least 13 years old. Sanchez said, Our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone We will no longer accept that."
"Telegram founder Pavel Durov used his unrestricted control of the app to send a mass message to all users in Spain, spreading several lies and making illegitimate attacks against the government. This is the first time this has happened in our country's history. Spaniards cannot live in a world where foreign tech oligarchs can flood our phones with propaganda at will simply because the government has announced measures to protect minors and enforce the law."
Spain plans to ban social media use by anyone under 16 and to create laws that hold social media executives responsible for illegal or harmful content. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described social media as a digital Wild West and said children should not navigate it alone. Tech leaders pushed back strongly: Elon Musk denounced the measures and Pavel Durov sent a mass Telegram message warning of threats to internet freedoms and surveillance-state risks. Spanish government sources accused Durov of spreading lies and propaganda and called the mass message unprecedented in the country.
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