08:00 PM EDT, 06/10/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's government introduced legislation that would ban users under 16 from accessing social media platforms unless companies meet safety standards set by a new digital regulator, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

The bill would apply to platforms operated by companies such as Meta and X and would allow regulators to impose penalties on firms that fail to comply. The government is also considering an optional digital age license for users over 16.

The legislation would also impose new requirements on AI chatbot providers, requiring them to mitigate harmful content risks and disclose crisis-reporting thresholds, though chatbots would not face an outright youth ban, Bloomberg reported.