By 31 October 2026 TikTok, Snap and YouTube had announced no default daily time limit for all under-18 users in the US or UK, as their newsrooms show; TikTok's two-hour limit applies only in Alabama under its September settlement, as BBC News reports.
The market resolves on the corporate newsroom or product blog of TikTok, Snap Inc or Google/YouTube. It resolves YES if one of them publishes a default daily time limit for users under 18 in at least the United States or the United Kingdom by 23:59 ET on 31 October 2026. Optional parental controls, screen-time reminders and existing wellbeing dashboards do not count; the limit must apply by default to under-18 accounts. If that source has not published in time, reporting by at least two of Reuters, BBC News and the Financial Times settle it.
Australia's social media ban for under-16s began in December 2025. The ban covers the same platforms and carries fines, so it is the closest real test of rules like these. We looked at the five official milestones of the ban so far. Only one of them reported the ban doing what it was meant to do.