April 15, 2026
As Greece and Other Countries Act to Protect Youth From Social Media Harms, Enough Is Enough® Urges U.S. Congress to do the Same
WASHINGTON, DC (April 14, 2026) – Enough Is Enough® (EIE) commends the leaders of Greece, Indonesia, and other countries for acting to protect their youth from the harms of social media and tech platforms, and calls on the U.S. Congress to advance online child protection legislation.
Greece, Indonesia, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, and Austria are all considering legislation to restrict children and teens’ use of social media. In December 2025, Australia banned minors under age 16 from accessing social media, and more than 4.7 million minor accounts were deactivated shortly after the law went into effect. Greece’s Prime Minister called on the European Union to address online harms to youth.
“Greece and other countries are wisely working to protect their youth from the harms of social media that include access to addictive algorithms, predators, viral social media challenges that can be fatal, among others. Without this growing momentum and recognition from elected leaders worldwide, these harms to youth would remain ubiquitous,” said Donna Rice Hughes, President and CEO, Enough Is Enough®.
“The U.S. Congress needs to feel this pressure to act to protect children online. We are grateful for the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees which are working in a bipartisan fashion to get key bills unanimously passed out of committee, including the Kids Online Safety Act. We call on Senate Majority Leader Thune to bring these and other child online safety bills, like the NO FAKES Act, for a floor vote and for the U.S. House to pass these well-thought-out Senate bills and get them to President Trump’s desk for signature. Every moment we wait, more children’s lives are damaged.
“Big Tech needs to feel pressure to protect children, and they won’t do so unless elected leaders force them to act. The bipartisan-supported federal Take it Down Act, recently used to convict a man for sharing abusive nonconsensual explicit images, shows that legislative efforts can be successful.
“Big Tech is the new Big Tobacco. A recent verdict against Meta and YouTube revealed that they were negligent for deliberately hooking children on social media and causing them harm. Another verdict found Meta enabled child sexual exploitation on its platforms and harmed children. And in a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Attorney General, a judge ruled that Meta will have to stand trial for allegedly hooking children on Instagram. Big Tech is rightfully facing a reckoning for the harms it has perpetuated against children, and more must be done,” Hughes said.