Minister Göktaş speaks on Habertürk

Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş answers the questions of Habertürk Ankara Representative Nasuhi Güngör in the Habertürk broadcast.

Here are the highlights from Minister Göktaş's statements;

Digitalization and technology development are of course important, but there are very big companies behind social media. There are companies that make more money the longer our children stay on screen. As you know, there are big lawsuits in the USA right now. In particular, companies sued Meta and other companies regarding addictive elements. They reached consensus in very large numbers. Australia implemented a 16-year-old social media regulation and gave companies a 1-year compliance period. What I mean to say is that there are similar movements and studies in the world. Many countries in the world suffer from this issue.

Social media has addictive elements. In the 15-year age regulation on social media, all accounts will be subject to age verification and certain filters will be created.

Just as we protect our children from the dangers on the streets, we also have to protect them from these dangers inside our homes.

Children under the age of 15 will not have access to social media. We did it all with e-government integration, in fact, we are implementing the age verification system with everyone's e-government, and with the regulation published last week, we had a route on how to do it. It is expected to go into effect for new accounts as of November 1, and by March 31, all accounts will actually go through the age verification system.

Everyone will undergo some form of age verification. How will this verification happen? We will be directed to e-government and e-government will provide us with a digital verification code to open an account. With this code, age verification can also be connected to the social platform. Children under the age of 15 will not be able to enter, and services will be reserved for those between 15 and 18. Here, too, there will be filters that create addiction, and our children's