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To Protect the Teens, Indonesia Will Need Everyone's Papers
What Actually Happened
| # | Claim | Date | Entities | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia will ban under-16s from social media. | Indonesia | Instagram Video (Primary Source) (archived) | |
| 2 | Communications Minister Mutia Hafid announced the ban takes effect on the 28th of March. | Mutia Hafid, Indonesia | Instagram Video (Primary Source) (archived) | |
| 3 | Hafid claimed Indonesia would be the first non-Western nation to impose such a ban. | Indonesia, Mutia Hafid | Instagram Video (Primary Source) (archived) | |
| 4 | The ban disallows teenagers from making accounts on high-risk platforms. | Indonesia | Instagram Video (Primary Source) (archived) | |
| 5 | The main enforcement mechanism for the ban is identity verification. | identity verification | Instagram Video (Primary Source) (archived) | |
| 6 | Identity verification risks exposing the anonymous sources who enable journalistic work. | journalists, identity verification | Instagram Video (Primary Source) (archived) | |
| 7 | Studies have found that screen time does not cause mental health problems in teenagers. | screen time, mental health | Nature Human Behaviour (Orben & Przybylski, 2019) (archived) |