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Draft report (2025/2081(INI)) 2025-11-19

Impact of social media and the online environment on young people

Committee on Culture and Education

Amendment 1

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Citation 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
– having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989,	– having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989, and to General Comment No.25 on how the Convention applies in the digital environment,

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Amendment 2

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Citation 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Council of Europe’s Guidelines to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of the child in the digital environment (2018),

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Amendment 3

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Citation 1 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regards to the OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital environment (2021),

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Amendment 4

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Citation 1 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted on 13 December 2006,

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Amendment 5

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Citation 1 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 18 December 1979, and its general recommendations,

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Amendment 6

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Commission’s guidelines of 14 July 2025 on measures to ensure a high level of privacy, safety and security for minors online, pursuant to Article 28(4) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065,

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Amendment 7

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 6 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Commission’s report on the implementation of the EU Youth Strategy (2022-2024) (COM(2025) 117 final),

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Amendment 8

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Council conclusions of 2 May 2025 on the assessment of the legal framework for audiovisual media services and video-sharing platform services,

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Amendment 9

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to its resolution of 11 December 2018 on education in the digital era: challenges, opportunities and lessons for EU policy design,

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Amendment 10

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 8 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to its resolution of 25 March 2021 on shaping digital education policy,

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Amendment 11

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 8 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) report of 8 August 2022 on Artificial Intelligence and the Rights of the Child,

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Amendment 12

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 8 e (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the European Commission guidelines of 2024 on Wellbeing and mental health at school,

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Amendment 13

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 8 f (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the European Commission’s Ethical guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data in teaching and learning for educators of 2022,

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Amendment 14

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 8 g (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Council’s Conclusions of 20 June 2025 on promoting and protecting the mental health of children and adolescents in the digital era,

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Amendment 15

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 8 h (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) publication on Social media usage and adolescents’ mental health in the EU,

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Amendment 16

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Citation 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Council conclusions on promoting and protecting the mental health of children and adolescents in the digital era, approved on 20 June 2025,
	https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-9069-2025-INIT/en/pdf

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Amendment 17

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Citation 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (CETS No. 201),

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Amendment 18

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Citation 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (CETS No. 210),

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Amendment 19

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Citation 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Jutland declaration on Shaping a Safe Online World for Minors, signed on 10 October 2025,

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Amendment 20

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Citation 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to General Comment No. 25 (2021) of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment, which provides guidance to States on implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child through relevant legislative, policy and other measures,

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Amendment 21

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Citation 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Commission Communication on the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027), adopted on 30 September 2020,

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Amendment 22

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Citation 16 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Joint Communication of the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the European Democracy Shield, adopted on 12 November 2025,

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Amendment 23

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Citation 16 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	– having regard to the Council conclusions on media literacy in an ever-changing world of 9 June 2020,

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Amendment 24

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Recital A

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
A. whereas global screen time data from 2025 shows that teenagers aged 11-14 spend around 9 hours per day on screens, that children aged 8-10 spend around 6 hours per day on screens, and that one in five children aged 8-12 report using screens for over 8 hours daily;	A. whereas global screen time data from 2025 shows that teenagers aged 11-14 spend around 9 hours per day on screens, that children aged 8-10 spend around 6 hours per day on screens, and that one in five children aged 8-12 report using screens for over 8 hours daily with young people’s lives deeply embedded online, shaping how they learn, interact and form their identities;

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Amendment 25

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Recital A

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
A. whereas global screen time data from 2025 shows that teenagers aged 11-14 spend around 9 hours per day on screens, that children aged 8-10 spend around 6 hours per day on screens, and that one in five children aged 8-12 report using screens for over 8 hours daily;	A. whereas global screen time data from 2025 shows that teenagers aged 11-14 spend around 9 hours per day on screens, that children aged 8-10 spend around 6 hours per day on screens, and that one in five children aged 8-12 report using screens for over 8 hours daily, underlining the scale of exposure and the urgency of setting protective standards in the EU;

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Amendment 26

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	A a. whereas the “online environment” refers broadly to the array of internet-connected services, platforms and devices with which young people interact, including but not limited to social networks, messaging applications, video-sharing and live-streaming services, online video games, gaming platforms and game-related streaming, educational and EdTech services, search engines, app stores, connected toys and other devices;

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Amendment 27

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital A a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	A a. whereas the online environment also provides a place where young people can exercise their freedoms and rights, including freedom of expression, education, information and participation as underlined by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child;1a
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	1a https://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=ElLWU5RYqiJ0FgHc3ceGlpHOhXA%2B2AyiczxzSLM0LlO%2BLBEbMIq01bDnDyag%2B4UE5dH6lDIRzUYKad9YPbXyWA%3D%3D

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Amendment 28

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital A b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	A b. whereas the online environment offers young people opportunities for learning, creativity, civic participation, and social connection, while also presenting varied impacts on well-being that depend on individual factors such as age, gender, and usage patterns, rather than screen time alone;

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Amendment 29

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital A c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	A c. whereas conduct that is unlawful or harmful in the offline world should not be tolerated online, and the same principles, rights and responsibilities that apply offline should also apply online, ensuring that the digital environment upholds the rule of law, fundamental rights and child-protection standards without imposing disproportionate restrictions on freedom of expression or innovation;

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Amendment 30

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital A d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	A d. whereas measures and policy responses should be tailored to the differing affordances and risks across these service categories;

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Amendment 31

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital B

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
B. whereas social media use among children in the EU aged 9-16 has more than doubled since 2010, now averaging 3 hours per day, with over 80 % using social media platforms daily, making online interaction a central part of their everyday lives;	B. whereas social media use among children in the EU aged 9-16 has more than doubled since 2010, now averaging 3 hours per day, with over 80 % using social media platforms daily, making online interaction a central part of their everyday lives; whereas excessive early screen exposure can lead to limited free play, engagement in sport and face-to-face social interaction, thus undermining wellbeing, the development of critical thinking and social skills; whereas an evaluation of the need for a delayed and age-appropriate introduction of digital tools in schools and at home may be necessary;

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Amendment 32

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital B

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
B. whereas social media use among children in the EU aged 9-16 has more than doubled since 2010, now averaging 3 hours per day, with over 80 % using social media platforms daily, making online interaction a central part of their everyday lives;	B. whereas social media use among children in the EU aged 9-16 has more than doubled since 2010, now averaging 3 hours per day, with over 80 % using social media platforms daily, making online interaction a central part of their everyday lives; whereas children belonging to different age groups should enjoy age-appropriate experience online;

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Amendment 33

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital B a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	B a. whereas evidence indicates that the effects of social media and digital technologies on young people's psychological, physical, and social well-being are not uniform, with some indicators of minor or insignificant connections, while others show significant correlation, and impacts varying by context, individual traits, and type of use; whereas positive outcomes, such as enhanced social support and reduced loneliness, are also observed;

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Amendment 34

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital B b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	B b. whereas cross-country differences can exist in online risks and opportunities, with children in some Member States facing heightened exposure to harmful content or reduced access to adequate resources and support;

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Amendment 35

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising, with a significant number of European children reporting feeling disturbed or upset by negative online experiences, reflecting widespread exposure to harmful content across the Member States;

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Amendment 36

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising whereas such harms disproportionately affect girls and young women, who face heightened exposure to body-image pressures and gender-based harassment;

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Amendment 37

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising; whereas such exposure is driven by deliberate targeting by online platforms;

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Amendment 38

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures which have a disproportionate impact on girls and young women, the promotion of self-harm, suicide, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;

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Amendment 39

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, pornography, child sexual abuse material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, drug use, violence, extremism, non-consensual content, and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;

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Amendment 40

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of illegal and harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised and pornographic material, online gambling, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;

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Amendment 41

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Annamária Vicsek

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures such as extreme thinness, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;

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Amendment 42

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media use could expose young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, grooming, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;

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Amendment 43

Annamária Vicsek, Catherine Griset, András Gyürk

Motion for a resolution

Recital C

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;	C. whereas social media exposes young users to a wide range of harmful content, including cyberbullying, sexualised material, disinformation, body image pressures, the promotion of self-harm, violence, extremism, radicalisation, non-consensual content and manipulative algorithm-driven advertising;

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Amendment 44

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital C a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	C a. whereas girls and women are more likely to experience sexual and gender-based abuse on social media, including image-based sexual abuse; whereas 52 % of young women and girls have experienced online abuse and that 68 % of this has taken place on social media platforms1a;
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	1a European Parliament Study The impact of the use of social media on women and girls, p.9

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Amendment 45

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital C a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	C a. whereas exposure to cyberhate, hate messages and violent images, and racist or discriminatory content is common, and often correlates with other risks, creating high-risk environments and fosters a culture of hostility that indirectly harms young people, even if not directly targeted;

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Amendment 46

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital C b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	C b. whereas, according to the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)1a, hate speech disproportionately targets Roma communities and its spread online may reinforces pre-existing prejudices, increasing the likelihood of discrimination and even physical violence offline1b; whereas the FRA has highlighted that detecting illegal and harmful online hate is very difficult, as no single methodology can reliably capture its full scale; whereas without independent research and monitoring, the prevalence of online hate speech, including that directed at Roma youth, is systematically underestimated;
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	1a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). (2023). Online content moderation – Current challenges in detecting hate speech. Publications Office of the European Union.
	1b European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey – Main Results (EU-MIDIS II). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2017.

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Amendment 47

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital C c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	C c. whereas available data indicates that vulnerable groups, including ethnic minorities such as Roma, and women, report fewer experiences of online harassment than the general population, as evidenced by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) surveys; whereas underreporting may be linked to a fear of reprisals, or to a lack of awareness, accessibility, or trust in existing reporting and complaint mechanisms;

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Amendment 48

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, foster addictive use and may exacerbate mental health challenges, contributing to sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal;	D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, foster addictive use and may exacerbate mental health challenges, contributing to sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal; whereas non-profit platforms that are distributed and managed by the community, such as online encyclopaedias, enable minors to exercise their fundamental rights, including freedom of expression and the right to access information, and entail types of risks that are fundamentally different to those posed by profit-making social media platforms;

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Amendment 49

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, foster addictive use and may exacerbate mental health challenges, contributing to sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal;	D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, may foster addictive use and may exacerbate mental health challenges, in such cases contributing to sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal; whereas specific features like notifications, quantified feedback (e.g. likes), and personalised algorithms reshape how young people form and maintain relationships, often leading to intensified peer pressure and problematic use of social media that disrupts daily life;

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Amendment 50

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, foster addictive use and may exacerbate mental health challenges, contributing to sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal;	D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement and monetising attention, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, that foster addictive use and entail different types of long term risks for minors that may exacerbate their physical and mental health challenges, contributing to addictive behaviour, sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal;

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Amendment 51

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, foster addictive use and may exacerbate mental health challenges, contributing to sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal;	D. whereas children are at risk of constant commercial exploitation such as misuse of their personal data; whereas social media platform features and recommender systems are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, foster addictive use and may exacerbate mental health challenges, contributing to sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal;

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Amendment 52

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Recital D

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive engagement with notifications, foster addictive use and may exacerbate mental health challenges, contributing to sleep disruption and emotional withdrawal;	D. whereas social media platform features are designed to maximise engagement, such as infinite scrolling and compulsive attention to notifications, foster a use that may lead to addiction and could exacerbate mental health challenges, contributing to sleep disturbances, social isolation, and having negative effects on academic performance;

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Amendment 53

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital D a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	D a. whereas video games constitute a major part of young people’s online leisure and social interaction and combine creative, social and competitive elements; whereas certain monetisation models and design elements, including randomised reward mechanics commonly referred to as ‘loot boxes’, may present risks comparable to gambling, especially for children and young people, and merit targeted protection and prevention measures; whereas age-appropriate classification, parental controls, and industry standards for safer in-game communication can reduce harms while preserving the cultural and educational value of gaming;

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Amendment 54

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital D b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	D b. whereas streaming platforms for live videogame footage and related content reach large child and adolescent audiences; whereas age verification for viewing streams are minimal or circumventable, allowing minors to view adult-oriented game streams (including gambling or sexualised content) even when such games are age-restricted for account-holders; whereas platforms should consider as safeguards not only account-level age verification but also content labelling, and measures such as blurring and age affirmations, and stricter default protections for minors;

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Amendment 55

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety;	E. whereas excessive and problematic social media use is associated with elevated risks of physical and mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety, loneliness, myopia and poor sleep, with pre-existing vulnerabilities such as low self-esteem, weak social connections or unstable home and school environment amplifying potential harmful effects; whereas such online and offline factors can interact and mutually reinforce one another, further exacerbating difficulties in adolescents’ lives;

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Amendment 56

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety;	E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety; whereas suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents in Europe, and whereas research indicates that excessive social media use and exposure to harmful online content are associated with higher risks of depression, anxiety and self-harm among young people;

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Amendment 57

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety;	E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety; whereas the excessive use of social media and digital environments, including LLMs, can adversely affect how reality and human relations are perceived, leading to cases of 'digital addiction' and the deterioration of cognitive and relationship skills;

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Amendment 58

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety;	E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety with growing evidence linking compulsive and passive use to anxiety, depression, sleep disruption, reduced attention, and lower self-esteem among children and adolescents;

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Amendment 59

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety;	E. whereas excessive screen time, digital overexposure and bad practices such as sharenting or child influencers in social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as social isolation, depression and anxiety;

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Amendment 60

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety;	E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety, which are exacerbated for individuals with pre-existing vulnerabilities and those coming from environments with limited family supervision;

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Amendment 61

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital E

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety;	E. whereas excessive social media use is associated with elevated risks of mental health issues in young people, such as depression and anxiety; whereas the World Health Organization recognises gaming addiction as a mental health disorder1a;
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	1a https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/addictive-behaviours-gaming-disorder

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Amendment 62

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	E a. whereas young people use social media, content-sharing platforms, online aggregators, and AI assistants for news consumption to an increasing extent; whereas many users experience challenges to distinguish between true and false information in the online space;

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Amendment 63

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital E a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	E a. whereas online communication can complement offline interactions by aiding skill development, helping create peer relationships and instilling a sense of community and belonging;

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Amendment 64

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital E b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	E b. whereas excessive use of social media could negatively impact the ability of young people to focus their attention in daily life, at school or at work, negatively affecting their performance, sense of self-worth and accomplishment;

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Amendment 65

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital E c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	E c. whereas minors increasingly interact with AI-driven tools, including conversational agents and recommender systems, which can foster emotional dependency, substitute for human interaction, and exacerbate vulnerability to manipulation;

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Amendment 66

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
F. whereas social media influencers significantly shape young people’s behaviours, consumption habits and opinions;	F. whereas social media influencers significantly shape young people’s behaviours, consumption habits and opinions; whereas minors are often exposed to unrealistic ideals and lifestyle standards, often through fake or staged imagery, which can contribute to body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and lower self-esteem;

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Amendment 67

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
F. whereas social media influencers significantly shape young people’s behaviours, consumption habits and opinions;	F. whereas social media influencers significantly shape young people’s behaviours, consumption habits and opinions; whereas the Digital Fairness Fitness Check 2024 exposes that just 20% of influencers systematically indicate the commercial nature of the content shared;

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Amendment 68

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
F. whereas social media influencers significantly shape young people’s behaviours, consumption habits and opinions;	F. whereas social media influencers significantly shape young people’s behaviours, consumption habits and opinions and whereas such interactions can drive impulsive decisions, especially among children and adolescents whose critical thinking is still developing;

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Amendment 69

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Recital F

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
F. whereas social media influencers significantly shape young people’s behaviours, consumption habits and opinions;	F. whereas social media influencers significantly shape young people’s behaviours, consumption habits and opinions and could also provide them with distorted standards and perceptions of reality, thereby fuelling a sense of insecurity and driving the pursuit of unhealthy ambitions;

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Amendment 70

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital F a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	F a. whereas young people, and children in particular, face risks through unfair commercial practices, clickbait, and hidden marketing, with algorithmic recommendations amplifying exposure and exploiting limited awareness of data security;

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Amendment 71

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
G. whereascyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people;	G. whereas bullying remains one of the most persistent risks that affects young people both online and offline, with long-term consequences for their mental health, their self-esteem and educational outcomes, and could lead to unhealthy coping mechanisms, including engaging in bullying behaviour; whereas instances of bullying online and offline are often interconnected, reflecting complex social dynamics across platforms like social networks messaging apps, and video games, and influenced by environmental factors like family support, peer relationships and school life; whereas addressing bullying requires effective prevention, reporting and support mechanisms in schools and online platforms; whereas reporting mechanisms depend on young people’s trust in them, in order to be used and effective; whereas complaint tools on platforms remain insufficient to provide timely address;

Or. en

Amendment 72

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
G. whereascyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people;	G. whereas cyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people with girls, LGBTIQ+ children, and children from marginalised backgrounds being disproportionately targeted; whereas algorithmic amplification of hateful and misogynistic content can contribute to the normalisation of such behaviour both online and offline;

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Amendment 73

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
G. whereascyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people;	G. whereas cyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people causing long-lasting harm to their mental health, self-esteem and educational outcomes, and requiring effective prevention, reporting and support mechanisms in schools and online platforms;

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Amendment 74

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
G. whereascyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people;	G. whereas cyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people and it is intensifying due to anonymity, peer amplification and constant connectivity, causing distress comparable to in-person bullying;

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Amendment 75

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
G. whereascyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people;	G. whereas too many children and minors suffer cyberbullying and harassment online which is affecting their wellbeing and mental health;

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Amendment 76

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Recital G

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
G. whereascyberbullying affects a significant portion of young people;	G. whereas cyberbullying, harassment, hate speech and discrimination, including the alarming rise of antisemitic content, affects a significant portion of young people;

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Amendment 77

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	G a. whereas many children and young people suffer bullying within the education system, from early childhood education to university, a phenomenon increasingly exacerbated by the use of social media and the online environment, with recent studies showing that around one in six school-aged children in Europe has experienced cyberbullying and that between 13 % and 29 % of 15-year-old students report frequent bullying, both online and offline;

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Amendment 78

Annamária Vicsek, András Gyürk, Catherine Griset, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	G a. whereas extremist groups increasingly exploit algorithms, social media, encrypted chats and gaming platforms for embedded propaganda targeting minors and socially isolated youth; whereas in 2023, 38 of 58 ISIS-linked suspects in Europe were aged 13–19, with many radicalised entirely online via platforms;1a
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	1a https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/25/world/isis-k-online-recruitment-security-threat-olympics-intl-cmd/index.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/home/items/876309/en

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Amendment 79

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	G a. whereas disinformation, amplified by engagement-driven design and AI-generated content, can mislead minors and polarise debate, making transparency, user control, education and protection from harassment essential safeguards;

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Amendment 80

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital G a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	G a. whereas social media algorithms can magnify gender stereotypes and girls are more likely to experience cyberbullying than boys;

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Amendment 81

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital G b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	G b. whereas studies carried out in several Member States show that minors have access to pornographic content, sometimes involuntarily, at a very young age; whereas according to a study conducted by the French Digital Services Coordinator, 2.3 million minors visit pornographic websites on a monthly basis, more than half of boys aged 12 and over visit these websites on a monthly basis and nearly two thirds of boys aged between 16 and 17 visit these websites on a monthly basis; whereas according to the Spanish Ministry of Justice, 7 out of 10 teenagers regularly consume pornography in Spain, and 53.8 % of young people between the ages of 12 and 15 state that they first watched pornographic content between the ages of 6 and 12;

Or. en

Amendment 82

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital H

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
H. whereas children below the official age limits hold social media accounts, often gaining access by misrepresenting their age to bypass social media platform restrictions;	H. whereas children below the digital age limits hold social media accounts, often gaining access by misrepresenting their age to bypass social media platform restrictions and might be exposed to content that is not age-appropriate potentially encountering risks of being in contact with unknown adults, of being bullied, or of adopting harmful conduct whereas safety, privacy and age-appropriate by design should be the norm including inter alia setting profiles to private by default, hindering contacts from strangers or not using the profiling recommender system by default;

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Amendment 83

Carolina Morace, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Recital H

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
H. whereas children below the official age limits hold social media accounts, often gaining access by misrepresenting their age to bypass social media platform restrictions;	H. whereas children below the official age limits hold social media accounts, often gaining access by misrepresenting their age to bypass social media platform restrictions, and that this state of affairs highlights the need for stronger and stricter age limits for accessing such platforms; whereas the presence of fake profiles and anonymous accounts on social media increases the risk of child solicitation, molestation and manipulation, necessitating a digital identity verification system that is more reliable and compliant with the principles of personal data protection;

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Amendment 84

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Recital H

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
H. whereas children below the official age limits hold social media accounts, often gaining access by misrepresenting their age to bypass social media platform restrictions;	H. whereas children below the official age limits hold social media accounts, gaining access by misrepresenting their age to bypass social media platform restrictions;

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Amendment 85

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital H a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	H a. whereas ‘sharenting’, the practice of parents widely and systemically sharing information and images of their children online, with the purpose of monetary gain by generating user engagement, could be exploitative and raises concerns about children’s right to privacy and may inadvertently expose them to grooming, identity theft or reputational harm, and could do psychological damage; whereas parents should be informed that posting pictures of their children online can involve risks, as once shared publicly, such images may be used in ways beyond their control; whereas sharing photos without commercial intent is not in itself harmful, and parents should retain the freedom to decide what to share;

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Amendment 86

Annamária Vicsek, Catherine Griset, András Gyürk, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Gerolf Annemans

Motion for a resolution

Recital I

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
I. whereas the current EU legal framework, including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act, provides a solid foundation for protecting children online, though persistent gaps remain in consistent enforcement;	I. whereas the current EU legal framework, including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act, provides a solid foundation for protecting children online, though persistent gaps remain in consistent enforcement; whereas Member States play a primary role to lead in legislation, education and awareness raising for the protection of minors online and offline, given the distribution of competences between the EU and Member States and the principle of subsidiarity;

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Amendment 87

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Recital I

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
I. whereas the current EU legal framework, including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act, provides a solid foundation for protecting children online, though persistent gaps remain in consistent enforcement;	I. whereas the current EU legal framework, including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act, provides a solid foundation for protecting children online, though persistent gaps remain in consistent enforcement; whereas the Commission's efforts to strengthen the protection of children online through the upcoming Digital Fairness Act, to fill remaining legal gaps and unfair practices in the digital environment;

Or. en

Amendment 88

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital I

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
I. whereas the current EU legal framework, including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act, provides a solid foundation for protecting children online, though persistent gaps remain in consistent enforcement;	I. whereas the current EU legal framework, including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act, provides a solid foundation for protecting children online, though persistent gaps remain in consistent enforcement and lack of engagement by the digital platforms to stablish safety features both in the design and in monitoring a safe and healthy use of their services;

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Amendment 89

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital I

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
I. whereas the current EU legal framework, including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act, provides a solid foundation for protecting children online, though persistent gaps remain in consistent enforcement;	I. whereas the General Data Protection Regulation, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act, provide robust frameworks for addressing online risks through content moderation, transparency in recommender systems and data minimization, which should be fully enforced to protect young users without imposing undue restrictions; whereas persistent gaps remain in consistent enforcement;

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Amendment 90

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Recital I a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I a. whereas online platforms currently operate under a limited liability framework that fails to reflect their significant economic and societal impact; whereas media service providers, in particular audiovisual media service providers, are subject to more stringent obligations, notably regarding the protection of minors; whereas the level of protection afforded to minors varies depending on the source and location of content consumption;

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Amendment 91

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital I a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I a. whereas social media commodifies insecurities, particularly for girls, through trends promoting unattainable beauty standards, body shaming, and early adoption of adult habits, while also targeting boys with unrealistic body standards centred on body image and fitness, causing body dysmorphia and promoting harmful behaviours such as steroid abuse;

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Amendment 92

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Recital I a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I a. whereas education, family involvement, and civic responsibility remain the most effective means to ensure the safe, measured, and responsible use of digital technologies by minors; whereas the promotion of educational models that strengthen family bonds and reduce emotional dependence on devices and social media;

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Amendment 93

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital I a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I a. whereas the EU and Member States should focus on making the existing rules work by ensuring that minors’ rights are not just recognised in law but protected in practice; whereas there is an urgent need to effectively implement and enforce EU legislation to create a safe online environment for minors;

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Amendment 94

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital I a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I a. whereas the AI Act takes into consideration the specific rights of children, by explicitly prohibiting AI systems that exploit the vulnerabilities of children online and by implementing proportionate and effective safeguards for high-risk AI systems;

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Amendment 95

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital I b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I b. whereas under the AVMSD, Member States must ensure that audiovisual media service providers and video-sharing platforms put in place measures to protect minors from content that may impair their physical, mental or moral development; whereas under the AVMSD the personal data of minors shall not be processed for commercial purposes, direct marketing, profiling and behaviourally targeted advertising;

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Amendment 96

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital I b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I b. whereas evidence shows that exposure to online pornography, including sharing nude photography with or without consent, begins increasingly in early adolescence, often through mainstream platforms and messaging apps, shaping attitudes towards relationships, consent and gender roles in ways that can be harmful;

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Amendment 97

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital I c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I c. whereas parental control tools are an important complement to platform and policy measures in protecting minors online; whereas the market currently offers a wide variety of parental-control apps and device settings with differing functionality and usability, which can overwhelm parents and reduce adoption; whereas minimal interoperable, child rights-based and privacy-preserving standards for parental controls would support parental choice, increase uptake and improve the protection of children across devices and services, while preserving room for innovation and competition;

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Amendment 98

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital I c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I c. whereas under the DSA, online platforms are not allowed to show ads based on personal data profiling if they know the user is a minor;

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Amendment 99

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital I d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I d. whereas the AIA aims at ensuring a high level of protection of fundamental rights, including the rights of the child and include provisions, that prohibits AI systems that exploit vulnerabilities based on age, that identifies high risks AI systems, that states the conditions for modifying use cases of AI System and that requires the establishment of a risk management system for the high-risk AI systems;

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Amendment 100

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital I e (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I e. whereas the GDPR states that children merit specific protection with regard to their personal data; whereas digital services that process the personal data of children, including for recommender systems and for filters that amend their physical appearance, are not requesting the “explicit consent” of a parent or guardian, and opt for another legal basis to collect and process the personal data of minors, such as the execution of a contract, a legal obligation, or their own legitimate interests;

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Amendment 101

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital I f (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	I f. whereas AI tools are increasingly integrated in the user experience of social media platforms, and significantly impact on children; whereas AI technology is designed to mimic how human brains work, are designed to be engaging and persuasive and that can generate harmful and illegal content; whereas many AI tools collect children’s personal information1a;
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	1a https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/how-s-life-for-children-in-the-digital-age_0854b900-en/full-report/the-impact-of-digital-activities-on-children-s-lives_4df70664.html

Or. en

Amendment 102

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Recital J

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
J. whereas digital and media literacy is fundamental to empowering young people against manipulation, misinformation, disinformation and profiling on social media;	J. whereas digital and AI literacy is fundamental to empowering young people to make a good use of digital services providing them with the necessary skills and tools to understand the risks and opportunities; whereas media literacy is essential to provide young people with a critical thinking and the tools to navigate and confront against manipulation, misinformation, disinformation and profiling on social media; whereas together with literacy, social and emotional support is needed, paying special attention to socio-economic inequalities surrounding young people, both online and offline;

Or. en

Amendment 103

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital J

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
J. whereas digital and media literacy is fundamental to empowering young people against manipulation, misinformation, disinformation and profiling on social media;	J. whereas digital and media literacy and education, including AI literacy and understanding of algorithms and algorithmic biases, is fundamental for empowering young people against manipulation, misinformation, disinformation and profiling on social media and to navigate online environments responsibly and critically;

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Amendment 104

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital J

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
J. whereas digital and media literacy is fundamental to empowering young people against manipulation, misinformation, disinformation and profiling on social media;	J. whereas many minors find it challenging to distinguish between true and false information in online news; whereas critical thinking, digital and media literacy is fundamental to empowering young people against manipulation, misinformation, disinformation and profiling on social media;

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Amendment 105

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Recital J

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
J. whereas digital and media literacy is fundamental to empowering young people against manipulation, misinformation, disinformation and profiling on social media;	J. whereas digital and media literacy is fundamental to empowering young people, and parents as well as educators against manipulation, misinformation, disinformation and profiling on social media;

Or. en

Amendment 106

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Recital J a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J a. whereas online gaming occurs through social media apps or accounts or directly on gaming apps, websites and devices (such as consoles); whereas some gaming platforms deliberately use a pattern of persuasive design tactics that directly play on children’s vulnerabilities, inciting them to play, spend and gamble, whereas minors are also subject to cyberbullying, harassment, contact risks and gender based violence in online gaming;

Or. en

Amendment 107

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital J a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J a. whereas education in digital and media literacy should extend to parents, educators, coaches, youth workers and those working in crisis centres and providing social services, who often lack support and training in addressing these issues; whereas such education and training should incorporate critical thinking, mental resilience, and AI awareness to address how young people interact with and respond to content online;

Or. en

Amendment 108

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Recital J a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J a. whereas children are particularly vulnerable to synthetic content, including AI-generated deepfakes, which can manipulate their perceptions and behaviour due to their still-developing cognitive and critical-thinking abilities; whereas such content can also be weaponised for harassment or sexual exploitation;

Or. en

Amendment 109

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Recital J a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J a. whereas teachers, parents, and legal guardians lack support in addressing and preventing the risks associated with overuse of social media and online environments by young people;

Or. en

Amendment 110

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Annamária Vicsek

Motion for a resolution

Recital J a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Ja. whereas the best interests of the child must be the primary consideration in any legislative action relating to the protection of minors online;

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Amendment 111

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Recital J b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J b. whereas emerging evidence show that AI “companion” chatbots and conversational agents can create intense emotional relationships with users and, when interacting with minors, present specific risks to mental health and grooming-like dynamics; whereas, several recent regulatory initiatives require operators of companion chatbots to adopt explicit youth-safety measures, such as clear disclosures that the user is interacting with an AI, automatic escalation to emergency services on crisis disclosures, and stricter age-assurance for under-18s; whereas such measures should inform EU-level guidance and platform obligations;

Or. en

Amendment 112

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital J b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J b. whereas the ability to consciously disengage from digital tools is recognised in DigComp 2.21a (Dimension 4.3) as a core competence for wellbeing and safety, preserving the ability to concentrate, this supporting healthy sleep and social connection, and forming part of digital balance literacy;
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	1a The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens by the Joint Research Center provides a common understanding of what digital competence is by giving examples of knowledge, skills and attitudes that help citizens engage confidently, critically and safely with digital technologies. https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128415

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Amendment 113

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Recital J b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J b. whereas school-wide approaches to digital balance, including clear policies on smartphone use, can create calmer learning environments, protect attention and strengthen social cohesion;

Or. en

Amendment 114

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital J c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J c. whereas the online environment increasingly shapes young people’s civic awareness and engagement; whereas citizenship education, including digital citizenship, is essential to equip young people with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate responsibly and critically in democratic life; whereas fostering civic competences alongside digital literacy supports resilience against disinformation, hate speech and manipulation online and reinforcing trust in institutions and shared European values;

Or. en

Amendment 115

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Recital J c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J c. whereas AI technologies can be misused to perpetrate technology-facilitated violence against women and girls; whereas deepfake technologies, algorithmic content curation, and automated decision-making systems may contribute to online harassment, image-based abuse, and other forms of gender-based violence, highlighting the need for targeted prevention and mitigation measures;

Or. en

Amendment 116

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Recital J d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J d. whereas women and girls remain significantly underrepresented in the creation, governance and regulation of digital technologies, including in AI development, platform design, content moderation and regulatory decision-making; whereas this imbalance risks reinforcing biases in digital systems and undermining gender-responsive online safety;

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Amendment 117

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Recital J d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	J d. whereas there is a notable lack of large data research and longitudinal studies on the effect of social media on children and young people;

Or. en

Amendment 118

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1 (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	-1. Recalls that, according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child the rights of the child must be respected, protected and fulfilled in the digital environment, and that digital service providers are to offer or make available services to children appropriate to their evolving capacities and to adhere to the highest standards of ethics, privacy and safety and age-appropriate in relation to the design of their products and services;

Or. en

Amendment 119

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;	1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design and age-appropriate design, algorithmic transparency, user empowerment, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all, and to guarantee respect for child and youth development, support for schools and families in creating healthy learning and living environments, and to ensure that young people are educated when to engage in in-person interactions over use of digital tools;

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Amendment 120

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;	1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all; stresses that this approach must systematically take into account gender-specific risks and ensure that the needs and experiences of girls and young women are fully reflected in all measures affecting their online experience;

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Amendment 121

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;	1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires an integrated strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance mechanisms, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all; stresses that such an approach must make the online safety of young people a cross-cutting objective of all EU digital initiatives;

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Amendment 122

Annamária Vicsek, Catherine Griset, András Gyürk, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Gerolf Annemans

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;	1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all while the best interest of the child shall be the guiding principle for any policy action or legislative initiative in this regard;

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Amendment 123

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;	1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, safety-by-default, algorithmic transparency, promoting the visibility of reliable and age-appropriate content in feeds and recommendations, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;

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Amendment 124

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Annamária Vicsek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;	1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, limitation of usage time, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;

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Amendment 125

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;	1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety and privacy-by-design, algorithmic transparency, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;

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Amendment 126

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;	1. Stresses that addressing the impact of social media on young people requires a unified strategy combining safety-by-design, algorithmic transparency, privacy-first age assurance, digital and media literacy, participatory governance and evidence-based evaluation to ensure equal protection and empowerment for all;

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Amendment 127

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 a. Underlines the importance of adopting a digital design approach that incorporates well-being from the outset, integrating mental health, attention sustainability and ethical design principles into platform architecture, to create online environments that promote young people’s autonomy, creativity and social connection; calls on the Commission to ensuring that the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act addresses this issue;

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Amendment 128

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 a. Underlines that a truly comprehensive approach to addressing the impact of social media and the online environment on young people requires shared responsibilities among platforms, educational institutions, including social workers, families and public authorities, especially local and regional authorities (LRAs);

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Amendment 129

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 a. Underlines the crucial role of parents and teachers in the digital literacy of young people, both to promote the safe and responsible use of digital technologies and to develop skills that enable them to recognize manipulation, disinformation, and harmful content;

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Amendment 130

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 b. Highlights the importance of meaningful child and youth consultation in content moderation design processes and updates thereof, recognising they are uniquely positioned to identify new ways to convey harmful or inappropriate material; stresses that participation mechanisms must be designed in an age-appropriate manner, ensuring that children and young people can safely contribute their perspectives without exposure to undue risk; calls on online platforms and relevant stakeholders to involve minors in co-creating reporting tools, moderation guidelines and awareness campaigns, in order to improve the detection of nuanced online content that could prove harmful;

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Amendment 131

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 b. Urges active participation of children and youth in policy review, platform design, literacy frameworks, and enforcement regimes, operationalising the concept of digital self-determination within EU law and practice;

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Amendment 132

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 c. Welcomes the commitment expressed by President Ursula von der Leyen in her 2025 State of the Union address to make Europe a safer digital space for children and families; echoes her call to protect young people from online harms such as cyberbullying, adult content, and exploitative algorithms designed to foster addiction; supports her statement that “it must be parents, not algorithms, who raise our children”, and calls on the Commission to follow up swiftly on the announced expert group to define a European approach that empowers parents, safeguards children’s rights and prioritises people’s well-being over profit;

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Amendment 133

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	1 c. Highlights the importance to perform regular and transparent youth impact assessments of platform algorithms and design features to ensure that online environments contribute positively to young people’s development and participation in society;

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Amendment 134

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Stresses the need to ensure consistency across key EU legal instruments, such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the AVMSD, the DSA and the Artificial Intelligence Act, and the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act, to build a unified framework for protecting children online;	2. Stresses the existence of numerous EU legal instruments to ensure a secure online environment, such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the AVMSD, the DSA, the Artificial Intelligence Act and the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive; calls on the Commission to take accurate and thorough stock of the applicable regulatory EU framework before proposing any new legislative proposals;

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Amendment 135

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
2. Stresses the need to ensure consistency across key EU legal instruments, such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the AVMSD, the DSA and the Artificial Intelligence Act, and the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act, to build a unified framework for protecting children online;	2. Stresses the need to ensure full and consistent application across key EU legal instruments, such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the AVMSD, the DSA and the Artificial Intelligence Act, and the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act, to build a unified framework for protecting children online;

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Amendment 136

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2 a. Reiterates that the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) acknowledges the protection of minors as an important policy objective of the Union and contains key provisions to safeguard better protection of minors online, in particular video-sharing platforms (VSPs), such as Article 28b (1), (2), and (3); highlights that the AVMSD requires VSPs to take appropriate measures to protect minors from content which may harm their physical, mental or moral development, e.g. through age verification and parental control tools, and to ensure the protection of the general public from certain illegal content as well as harmful and illegal commercial communications; reiterates further that video-sharing platform providers must inform users where content contains advertising, by providing a functionality allowing users to declare such information, and provide effective media literacy measures and tools;

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Amendment 137

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2 a. Welcomes the actions by the Commission and Member States of assessing and, where appropriate, implementing measures addressing gambling-like mechanics in video games, including loot boxes; calls for the evaluation of potential measures, such as mandatory disclosure of odds and explicit labelling of randomised reward mechanics as means of protection for minors; encourages video game sector stakeholders to introduce measures to increase transparency and limit exposure of underage players to monetisation models while preserving legitimate game design innovation;

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Amendment 138

Ioan-Rareş Bogdan

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2a. Calls on the Commission to bring forward more swiftly proposals for the review of EU legal instruments such as the General Data Protection Regulation, the AVMSD, the Digital Services Act and the Artificial Intelligence Act, as well as the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act, whenever it is notified of new phenomena liable to manipulate the minds of minors, either intrusively or by covert means, and to have a negative impact on them;

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Amendment 139

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure cohesive and synchronised implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) for the protection of minors on video-sharing and social media platforms; highlights the delays in the appointment of Digital Services Coordinators (DSCs) and calls for the harmonisation of national measures in order to avoid the fragmentation of child protection in the EU;

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Amendment 140

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2 a. Calls on the Commission to encourage the development of guidelines and best practices for safe default settings for minors, including measures such as autoplay off, limiting infinite scroll, enabling a reset feed option, setting time limits, and restricting notifications, in order to promote the principle of safety-by-design and ensure the digital well-being of children and young people;

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Amendment 141

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2 a. Calls for the reinforcement of GDPR’s privacy-by-design principles with explicit age-appropriate standards: default maximum privacy settings, prohibition of targeted profiling or ads to minors, minimalist data collection, and child-friendly terms and conditions;

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Amendment 142

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Annamária Vicsek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2a. Stresses that Member States should retain their prerogatives in relation to protecting minors online;

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Amendment 143

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	2 b. Underlines that the protection of minors is a very sensitive area and requires carefully targeted regulatory approaches that reflect cultural specificities and contexts; reiterates the competence of the Member States in this field; expresses concern about cases where the Commission's broad interpretation of the DSA has undermined Member State's leeway under the AVMSD to regulate the protection of minors;

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Amendment 144

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
3. Considers the upcoming revision of the AVMSD a timely opportunity to strengthen the protection of young people against harmful content on video-sharing platforms (VSPs) and social media;	3. Considers the upcoming revision of the AVMSD a timely opportunity to strengthen the protection of young people against illegal and harmful content on video-sharing platforms (VSPs) including social media;

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Amendment 145

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	4 a. Calls on the Commission, as part of the upcoming AVMSD revision to assess the 2020 Commission Guidelines on the practical application of the essential functionality criterion of the definition of a ‘video-sharing platform service’, and evaluate whether it is fit for purpose in covering all services providing audiovisual media content, and taking into account the established AVMSD goal of maintaining a high level of protection of viewers, in line with the Council Conclusions C/2025/2954;

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Amendment 146

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
5. Stresses the need to consider extending key AVMSD provisions, such as those on advertising transparency and the protection of minors, to major VSPs; underlines that aligning platform responsibilities with those of media service providers would help to close regulatory gaps affecting young audiences;	5. Stresses the need to assess he implementation of key AVMSD provisions, such as those on advertising transparency and the protection of minors, to major VSPs; underlines that aligning video sharing platforms responsibilities with those of media service providers would help to address regulatory gaps affecting young audiences;

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Amendment 147

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	5 a. Underscores the need to evaluate the obligations set out in the AVMSD for Member States to promote and take measures to develop media literacy skills, and determine if they need to be further reinforced and expanded; calls on the European Board for Media Services, according to its tasks under the EMFA, to intensify cooperation on the exchange of best practices on media literacy, and to foster the development and use of effective measures and tools to strengthen media literacy; calls on Member States to reinforce national measures for media literacy education, in order to improve democratic resilience and safeguard against disinformation and manipulation;

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Amendment 148

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	5 a. Calls on the Commission to reinforce provisions ensuring the prominence of media services of general interest in the upcoming review of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), including by clarifying that such prominence rules can also apply to online platforms to promote access to trustworthy, high-quality and age-appropriate online content;

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Amendment 149

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	5a. Calls on the Commission to clarify the status and responsibilities of professional content creators and influencers in the upcoming revision of the AVMSD to ensure that they are subject to the same obligations on advertising transparency and protection of minors as media service providers;

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Amendment 150

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	5 a. Calls on the Commission to specify the obligations under Article 28b in the upcoming revision of the AVMSD, with a particular focus on the effective protection of minors from harmful content on video-sharing platforms;

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Amendment 151

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;	6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines, and algorithmic content filters, present new risks to children’s mental health due to chatbots’ ineffective safeguards against harmful content, integrated bias, a strong potential for manipulation, and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the AI Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment, and children's rights safeguard; stresses that such services should be classified, risk-assessed, and documented under the AI Act, including watermarking and transparency on AI-generated content; further underlines the need for protective default settings in such services and for child-friendly explanations of how automated systems work; expresses concern about the growing exposure of young people to AI-generated deep fakes, which can mislead them into disinformation or fraudulent schemes;

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Amendment 152

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;	6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights; calls on the Commission for the development of guidelines for AI systems impacting children to prioritise precautionary measures against engagement-driven designs, including protective default settings and understandable, child-friendly explanations of how automated systems work, while ensuring that AI used by children remains safe and available for use;

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Amendment 153

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;	6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights; calls on the Commission to introduce an obligation to label content generated with the help of artificial intelligence in order to strengthen user trust and media literacy; calls for enhanced protection of minors online, including preventing the profiling of minors for political advertising or for the promotion of sensitive products;

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Amendment 154

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;	6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions and may affect children´s cognitive and social development as well as their mental health reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations notably on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;

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Amendment 155

Annamária Vicsek, Catherine Griset, András Gyürk, Gerolf Annemans

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;	6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present threat to the safe and healthy development of children, including new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;

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Amendment 156

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;	6. Stresses that AI-driven youth-facing services, such as chatbots, personalisation engines, deepfake technologies and algorithmic content filters, present new risks of bias, manipulation and privacy intrusions, reinforcing the necessity of enforcing the Artificial Intelligence Act’s obligations on transparency, risk assessment and the safeguarding of children’s rights;

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Amendment 157

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 a. Expresses concern over the growing proliferation of AI-generated content impersonating famous journalists, moderators or news anchors of media organisations, and other personalities and brands, which exploit users' trust for commercial gain or for the dissemination of disinformation (so-called celebrity scams); urges online platforms to increase efforts in curbing the spread of celebrity scams through targeted measures; urges the Commission to classify celebrity scams as a systematic risk and intensify ongoing investigations under the DSA; encourages the Commission to consider adopting stricter measures, including legislation, to protect minors from being misled and deceived by celebrity scams, while also ensuring more effective avenues of redress for media organisations and their employees affected by these unlawful advertising practices;

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Amendment 158

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 a. Recognises the potential of AI to enhance learning, creativity, and entrepreneurship among young people, including through personalised guidance, innovation in arts and media, and access to new forms of economic participation; notes, that young people increasingly use AI systems to seek advice on business creation, investment strategies and other complex financial or entrepreneurial activities; warns that such uses, if not accompanied by adequate safeguards, guidance or financial literacy, may expose young users to significant economic risks and psychological pressure; calls for Member states to reinforce financial literacy in national educational programmes and initiatives in schools and non-formal education;

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Amendment 159

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 a. Notes that data sets used to train AI systems often reflect entrenched gender stereotypes, resulting in biased recommendation algorithms and content-ordering systems, as well as discriminatory moderation practices that disproportionately affect girls and women; calls for the systematic auditing of training data and algorithmic outputs using gender-sensitive indicators;

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Amendment 160

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6a. Stresses the need for all artificial intelligence systems used on platforms frequented by minors to be subject to regular risk auditing and to include visible labels to show when the content has been generated or modified by AI;

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Amendment 161

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 b. Voices concern about AI assistants regularly misrepresenting news content in their outputs no matter the language, territory, or platforms used; stresses providers of AI assistants to collaborate with the media sector to improve the assistants' responses and outputs; Calls on the Commission, Member States and relevant regulatory authorities to effectively apply relevant EU media and digital laws with a view to promote public interest objectives in AI, such as media pluralism, and to prevent AI assisted search from undermining citizens' trust in news and access to reliable information;

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Amendment 162

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 b. Stresses that the risk assessments required under the Artificial Intelligence Act and the Digital Services Act must explicitly identify and mitigate gender-specific harms to children and adolescents, including the algorithmic promotion of misogynistic communities, sexualised AI-generated images, pro-anorexia and self-harm content, and other pathways that disproportionately affect girls and young women; calls for scenario testing to examine how recommender systems expose minors to such content and for platforms to demonstrate measures to prevent harmful content escalation;

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Amendment 163

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 b. Underlines that while AI can support innovation and inclusion by lowering entry barriers to knowledge, it must not replace critical thinking, mentorship or expert guidance; stresses that equipping young people with AI literacy is essential for ensuring their meaningful and safe participation in a society increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence; calls for the integration of AI literacy and critical thinking skills in formal and non-formal education systems to help young people understand, question and responsibly use AI technologies;

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Amendment 164

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6b. Highlights the risks associated with the interaction of young people with so-called ‘AI emotional companions’, artificial intelligence-based applications that simulate emotional relationships and virtual friendships; warns that these systems can exploit the emotional vulnerability of minors, create dependency and be used to harvest sensitive data; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that parents and young people are informed on these risks and to deal with this issue in digital literacy policies;

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Amendment 165

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 c. Highlights the growing psychological and social impact of AI-generated content, recommender systems and immersive environments on young people; calls for the integration of digital well-being and attention sustainability indicators into AI product evaluation and labelling frameworks; calls on platforms to apply a child and youth impact assessments for AI systems with foreseeable effects on minors, in line with the principle of the best interest of the child; urges Member States and the Commission to ensure that AI risk classification mechanisms explicitly consider impacts on young users’ rights, mental health and social inclusion;

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Amendment 166

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6c. Stresses the need for clear regulation of AI emotional companions and emotional support chatbots accessible to minors; calls for the introduction of mandatory ethical standards on the design and use of these systems in order to prevent manipulation, addiction or the harvesting of sensitive psychological data; calls on the Commission to assess the impact of these technologies in the framework of the future strategy for the digital safety of the child and to bring forward, if necessary, a European code of conduct on conversational AI for minors;

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Amendment 167

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 d. Calls for improved transparency regarding the training of AI models, including clear information on the datasets and materials used, particularly for AI systems that are used or are likely to be accessed by children and young people; emphasises that AI systems interacting with young users must comply with the principles of safety-by-design; stresses that such transparency should be accompanied by additional child safeguarding measures to prevent exposure to harmful, biased or inappropriate content; calls for the establishment of a Code of Conduct setting industry standards for transparency, accountability and child protection in the development of these technologies;

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Amendment 168

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 e (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 e. Highlights the need to prevent algorithmic bias and discrimination affecting young people, with a particular attention to those from disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds, such as children in institutions, children with disabilities, and Roma children and youth; calls on platforms to commission regular independent audits and transparent reporting mechanisms to monitor and correct systemic bias in AI-driven educational, employment and social media systems;

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Amendment 169

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 f (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6 f. Welcomes the role of the Safer Internet Centres in awareness-raising, helplines, and youth panels; calls the Commission and Member States to for improve training and capacity building to address emerging trends of AI use for harmful content generation such as cyberbullying, sexualised material and disinformation, ensuring tailored support reaches young people, and especially those from vulnerable groups and those who lack support the most;

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Amendment 170

Annamária Vicsek, Catherine Griset, András Gyürk, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Gerolf Annemans

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Recognises the fundamental role of parents and legal guardians, as primary caretakers, to make decisions for the development of their child, including on education, access to platforms and digital content, restriction on data collection, profiling or targeted advertising;

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Amendment 171

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
7. Welcomes the July 2025 Commission guidelines pursuant to Article 28 DSA as a key step in strengthening child protection online, particularly on VSPs and social media, offering practical tools to help platforms and regulators apply the DSA rules effectively;	7. Welcomes the July 2025 Commission guidelines pursuant to Article 28 DSA as a key step in strengthening child protection online, particularly on VSPs and social media, offering practical tools to help platforms and regulators apply the DSA rules effectively; Calls on platforms to implement swiftly the recommendations of the guidelines, and on the Commission to monitor and ensure their swift implementation; urges, in particular, the simplification of terms and conditions, the implementation of clear, simple and easy to use reporting processes and the provision of appropriate, child-friendly, confidential, guidance for younger users of all available tools for protection, reporting and privacy protection;

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Amendment 172

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
7. Welcomes the July 2025 Commission guidelines pursuant to Article 28 DSA as a key step in strengthening child protection online, particularly on VSPs and social media, offering practical tools to help platforms and regulators apply the DSA rules effectively;	7. Welcomes the July 2025 Commission guidelines pursuant to Article 28 DSA as a key step in strengthening child protection online, offering practical tools to help online platforms and regulators apply the DSA rules effectively;

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Amendment 173

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Recalls that actions to tackle the negative impact of social media on young people should not be misused to justify mass surveillance or political censorship;

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Amendment 174

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Recalls that tackling online sexual abuse and exploitation is essential to addressing the impact of social media on young people; stresses the importance of reinforcing the legal framework and recognises the recast of Directive 2011/93/EU10 as a key measure for strengthening child protection online;	8. Recalls that tackling online sexual abuse and exploitation is essential to addressing the impact of social media on young people and must be done through prevention, safety and privacy-by-design, reporting tools, education and appropriate means for law enforcement; stresses the importance of reinforcing the legal framework and recognises the recast of Directive 2011/93/EU10 as a key measure for strengthening child protection online;
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10 Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (OJ L 335, 17.12.2011, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2011/93/oj).	10 Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (OJ L 335, 17.12.2011, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2011/93/oj).

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Amendment 175

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
8. Recalls that tackling online sexual abuse and exploitation is essential to addressing the impact of social media on young people; stresses the importance of reinforcing the legal framework and recognises the recast of Directive 2011/93/EU10 as a key measure for strengthening child protection online;	8. Recalls that tackling online sexual abuses and exploitation, as well as online child sexual abuse material is essential to addressing the impact of social media on young people; stresses the importance of reinforcing the legal framework and recognises the recast of Directive 2011/93/EU10 as a key measure for strengthening child protection online;
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10 Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (OJ L 335, 17.12.2011, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2011/93/oj).	10 Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (OJ L 335, 17.12.2011, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2011/93/oj).

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Amendment 176

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits;	9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits; urges the Commission to develop comprehensive, evidence-based guidelines on healthy technology use, tailored by age group, focusing on usage patterns and features rather than screen time alone; encourages the Commission and Member States to promote offline alternatives to digital activities, such as community-based arts, sports, and social programs, to support young people's holistic well-being without unduly restricting online access; calls on the Commission, in coordination with Member States to encourage platforms to implement default user-friendly measures for accounts of minors, including periodic prompts to pause, configurable time-outs, and regular, unobtrusive notifications to users indicating the duration of their activity;

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Amendment 177

Zsuzsanna Borvendég

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits;	9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits; stresses that protecting young people’s mental health also requires safeguarding their right to an analogue life, ensuring that public services, education and administrative procedures remain fully accessible without mandatory digital tools or online registration, and calls on the Commission and Member States to promote programmes encouraging digital detox and family-based offline activities;

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Amendment 178

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits;	9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits; calls on the Member States to include digital emotional health in national education and public health strategies by means of psychological counselling in schools, dedicated support lines and campaigns, aimed at young people, on digital balance and healthy relationships online; stresses that emotional health is an integral part of digital literacy;

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Amendment 179

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits;	9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the establishment of educational spaces combining education, sport and culture known as 'digital awareness gyms' to foster the conscious and creative use of social media and encourage socialisation and creativity by means of sporting and artistic activities;

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Amendment 180

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits;	9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits; warns about the fact that online tools, such as AI Companions and Chatbots cannot be used to solve mental health issues and might be dangerous in this regard; calls for support for mental health professionals and structures;

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Amendment 181

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits;	9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits; calls on the Member States to include modules on digital well-being in their education systems and to promote a healthy balance between online and offline activities;

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Amendment 182

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits;	9. Encourages awareness-raising campaigns targeting young people, especially in rural and remote areas, families and schools, similar to initiatives such as Safer Internet Day, to prevent digital addiction, foster peer support skills and encourage healthier social media habits;

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Amendment 183

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Stresses the importance of understanding the phenomenon of the online disinhibition effect, which refers to the reduction of social restraints and empathy in online communication due to anonymity, physical distance and the absence of non-verbal cues; notes that this effect can lead to increased aggression, insults and cyberbullying, and underlines the need for educational programmes that foster digital empathy, responsible communication and self-regulation in the online environment;

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Amendment 184

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Notes offline and online risk factors and behaviours are deeply linked; calls, therefore, on the Commission and Member States to promote whole-community interventions, including parent training, peer-support networks and family awareness programmes, recognising that supportive relationships can have a significant role in mitigating the risks of both offline and online harms;

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Amendment 185

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Highlights that young people with mental health problems and issues such as body dissatisfaction or low self-esteem seem to be more vulnerable to negative effect; calls for research on the mental health impact of digital platforms, AI and social media, that will cover the diverse experiences of young people across a range of contexts and backgrounds;

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Amendment 186

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Emphasises the crucial role played by parents, guardians and educators in shaping young people’s digital experiences; calls for coordinated national and EU-level awareness campaigns and accessible guidance, training and support tools to help them understand online risks, strengthen digital resilience and foster safe and healthy online habits;

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Amendment 187

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Underlines that excessive use of social media can promote isolation, loneliness, and psychological difficulties; calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage the socialisation of young people through sports, group activities, and civic engagement;

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Amendment 188

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Stresses that social media profoundly influences young people’s mental health, with links to anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and body image issues, particularly when platforms encourage comparison, perfectionism, or viewing curated content;

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Amendment 189

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Calls for stronger supporting sustainable investment in grassroots, peer-led, and community-driven psychosocial services, paying attention to more vulnerable children and young people, reducing discrimination and creating supportive environments;

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Amendment 190

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 a. Calls on Member States to guarantee rapid access to mental-health support and psychological assistance for all young people, ensuring that no one is left without help due to financial or geographical barriers;

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Amendment 191

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 b. Expresses concern about the growing evidence that constant exposure to fast-paced, highly stimulating online environments, including social media platforms, is contributing to a decline in concentration capacity among children and young people; notes that the design of such short-form platforms often relies on algorithmic amplification and instant gratification, which can interfere with sustained focus and cognitive development; highlights the need for comprehensive, cross-disciplinary research to assess the long-term neurological and psychological impacts of online content consumption patterns on young users, including potential links to increased diagnoses or symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and attention deficit disorder (ADD); calls on the Commission and the Member States to support longitudinal studies and data collection on this phenomenon, and to develop evidence-based guidelines for digital platform design;

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Amendment 192

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 b. Calls on Member States to promote healthy lifestyles that balance social media use and screen time with regular outdoor activities and physical exercise, recognising the importance of such practices in safeguarding both mental and physical health, including slowing the progression of myopia and reducing the risk of digital eye strain, while enhancing overall well-being through improved sleep patterns and cardiovascular fitness;

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Amendment 193

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 b. Calls on the Commission to develop, in cooperation with Member States and relevant bodies, age-specific guidelines on recommended screen time and appropriate digital content for different age groups of children, based on scientific evidence from the fields of child development and mental health; stresses that such guidelines should serve as a reference for the design and safety features of digital services accessible to minors;

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Amendment 194

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 b. Stresses that the access to pornography can expose children to violent and age-inappropriate content, which has been proven to contribute to increased aggression and sexual violence and trigger harmful sexual behaviours among children and teenagers, perpetuating violence against women and girls; calls for the promotion of age-tailored sexual education for children and minors as an essential part of a healthy life;

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Amendment 195

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 b. Notes that the spread of AI-generated sexualised images and deepfakes can have severe psychological impacts on girls and young women, including fear, anxiety and withdrawal from online spaces; calls for accessible and child-appropriate support services, including counselling, reporting mechanisms and legal assistance, for minors affected by such image-based abuse;

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Amendment 196

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 b. Highlights the positive role of sport and physical activity in promoting mental and physical well-being and in reducing the excessive use of social media and digital devices among young people; encourages cooperation between schools, youth organisations and sports associations to promote healthy lifestyles and offline social interaction;

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Amendment 197

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 b. Welcomes the move of certain social media services to end-to-end encrypted services; recalls that privacy is necessary for victims of abuse to protect their safety and increase their willingness to get help;

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Amendment 198

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 c. Stresses that the addictive use of digital products and services can cause serious mental harm, particularly to minors, while also entailing economic and physical risks; calls on the Commission to propose legislation mandating safety-by-design, requiring all platforms to integrate safeguards into their recommender systems to protect the mental health of young users, highlighting the need for safe, inclusive, and age-appropriate digital environments;

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Amendment 199

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 c. Urges the Member States, in the context of their implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Act, to integrate safeguards against emotional dependency on AI systems used by or accessible to minors; stresses in particular the need to prohibit practices that exploit the psychological vulnerabilities of children;

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Amendment 200

Leire Pajín, Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 d. Calls to embedding mental health literacy, media and digital literacy, sexual education and social-emotional skills into school curricula to provide children and minors with the skills and tools necessary to navigate on the digital sphere;

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Amendment 201

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	9 c. Recalls that age verification is not a silver bullet to ensure the protection of minors online and it should not be contemplated in isolation, but in line with the children´s rights and a safety by design approach;

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Amendment 202

Zsuzsanna Borvendég

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data;	10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls, calling for interoperable age assurance systems linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data; further calls on Member States to establish comprehensive digital child protection strategies, including awareness programmes in schools, family advisory services, and community-based initiatives to reduce excessive screen use, while underlining that EU-level rules should serve as a framework rather than direct intervention in national education systems;

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Amendment 203

Carolina Morace, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data;	10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data; underlines that minimum age thresholds for accessing social media should be harmonised and made stricter at EU level with a view to safeguarding the mental health and development of minors, particularly children under the age of 13; stresses as well the need to verify the identity of social media profiles in order to prevent young people from falling prey to fake profiles;

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Amendment 204

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data;	10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data; calls on the Commission and the Council to promote coordinated investments and incentives for the deployment of the European Digital Identity Wallet across Member States; considers that ensuring its interoperability and accessibility is essential to make age assurance and online safety solutions more effective, secure and privacy-preserving;

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Amendment 205

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data;	10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data; emphasises, in this connection, the importance of adopting ‘privacy-first’ solutions, such as age tokens or mechanisms operated by independent third parties, that enable confirmation of the age threshold (‘are you over X years of age?’) without disclosure of one's full identity or sensitive biometric data;

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Amendment 206

Sibylle Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data;	10. Recalls that effective and privacy-respecting age verification settings in computers and smartphones can only be implemented with the cooperation of operating systems providers; calls, in that regard, on operating system providers to offer the system settings provided for in California's Digital Age Assurance Act1a in Europe as well, so that parents can adjust the settings in such a way that a user’s age group can be verified without collecting or retaining personal data;
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	1a AB 1043, Wicks. Age verification signals: software applications and online services. An act to add Title 1.81.9 (commencing with Section 1798.500) to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, relating to consumer protection. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

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Amendment 207

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data;	10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data; stresses, in that regard, the potential of opting for specific settings when purchasing goods to prevent under-age users from being able to access content that is prohibited to them;

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Amendment 208

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data;	10. Stresses the need for effective, proportionate, child-rights and privacy-respecting age verification and parental control tools; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age verification systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age against content and services that are prohibited for minors without collecting or retaining personal data;

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Amendment 209

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age verification and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data;	10. Stresses the need for effective and privacy-respecting age assurance and parental controls; calls, in that regard, for robust, easy-to-use and interoperable age assurance systems, linked to the EU Digital Identity Wallet, that verify a user’s age without collecting or retaining personal data, in line with European data protection standards;

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Amendment 210

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 – point a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	(a) Underlines that, at present, an effective system to ensure the verification of users’ actual age would be a combination of age verification, estimation, and inference technologies;

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Amendment 211

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Reiterates the role of parents, legal guardians, teachers, carers and youth workers in monitoring online access and behaviour of children and young people in their care, with the means of collaboration, respectful communication and respecting their right to privacy; underlines that such efforts are most effective when backed by clear and consistent policies and guidelines at national level, designed and implemented in cooperation between parents, teachers and where appropriate education authorities; points out that such measures could include community-based support measures, including digital literacy mentoring programmes in schools and youth centres, targeted outreach through social workers and NGOs, and the provision of accessible guidance materials for parents and caregivers with low digital skills;

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Amendment 212

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Calls on the Commission to establish a European mechanism for monitoring the effectiveness of child online protection policies, including the implementation of age restrictions, age verification, and safety settings on platforms, making use of existing capacities, in particular Eurostat data and methodologies; calls for common indicators and regular reports on the impact of these measures on children’s well-being and privacy, in order to ensure the proportionality and effectiveness of the regulations;

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Amendment 213

Ioan-Rareş Bogdan

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10a. Urges online platforms, when using interoperable age verification systems connected to the European Digital Identity Wallet, to immediately display a banner with a message that assures minors, in a friendly way encouraging their playfulness and curiosity, that the system does not collect/store personal data and that verification is being done under conditions of anonymity;

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Amendment 214

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Calls for the use of age verification systems to ensure that minors cannot access websites already prohibited by law, such as pornographic sites, gambling platforms and similar content providers; calls for the introduction of a minimum age limit of 13 years for access to high-risk social media and video-sharing platforms;

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Amendment 215

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Stresses that age verification mechanisms must be proportionate to risks and purpose, privacy preserving and offer a high level of security; besides, they must be easy to use for the child, transparent and offer routes to challenge and redress;

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Amendment 216

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Annamária Vicsek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10a. Stresses that technical measures can be implemented by digital platforms to restrict the time minors spend using these platforms;

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Amendment 217

Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 a. Welcomes initiatives and relevant tools, such as parental control apps, available in national level to help parents control their kids’ online activities;

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Amendment 218

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 b. Reminds that the DSA prohibits the collection and processing of additional data in order to assess the age of the user; is particularly concerned by the use of various age assurance techniques by private actors and the lack of transparency on the data collected; urges platforms to stop using age assurance tools that process sensitive data such as biometric data; insists that behavioural data age inference represents an unacceptable risk to everyone’s privacy;

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Amendment 219

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 b. Stresses that Article 28b(3)(f) of the AVMSD provides for the establishment of age verification systems on video-sharing platforms to protect minors from content that may impair their physical, mental, or moral development; underlines that the effective implementation of such systems should lead to a safer online environment for children and young people, while fully respecting their privacy;

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Amendment 220

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 b. Invites Member States to promote regular dialogues between parents, schools and where appropriate youth organisations, to inform them on different approaches to daily routines such as device-free time, bedtime practices and notification management, in order to support healthier social media use;

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Amendment 221

Ioan-Rareş Bogdan

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10b. Calls on the Commission to bring forward a set of rules to ensure compulsory parental control over the purchase of new devices to be used by children under the age of 16;

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Amendment 222

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10b. Calls for measures to be put in place to prohibit users under the age of fifteen from having social media accounts;

Or. fr

Amendment 223

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work with platforms to adopt concrete measures to enhance awareness of existing reporting and complaint mechanisms for online harassment and hate speech, with particular attention to vulnerable children and youth; encourages cooperation with civil society organisations, educational institutions, online platforms, and parents and caregivers to ensure effective dissemination of information and support for victims;

Or. en

Amendment 224

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 d. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with Member States, Safer Internet Centres and relevant industry and children’s rights representatives, to develop EU framework of minimum functional standards for parental-control tools, should be non-prescriptive and technology-neutral, cover basic, user-centred functions such as configurable time limits and schedules, content filtering by age/ratings, in-app purchase and payment blocking, remote device management and simple family account management, child-friendly reporting of harmful content and behaviour, and clear, intelligible user interfaces and onboarding for parents; stresses that the standards should also require privacy protection measures such as local data storage by default, data minimisation and no sharing of children’s or family data with third parties for behavioural advertising;

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Amendment 225

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 e (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 e. Calls on the Commission to support an industry-led, voluntary interoperability initiative and a EU certification scheme, to help increase parental control uptake and cross-device effectiveness; calls on Member States to promote parental awareness campaigns and to integrate guidance on approved functionalities into digital-parenting support offered by Safer Internet Centres and schools;

Or. en

Amendment 226

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 f (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	10 f. Stresses that parental control mechanisms are often limited or absent for vulnerable groups such as children in institutional care, Roma children, and children whose parents have lower levels of educational attainment; underlines that these groups are particularly exposed to early contact with harmful or manipulative online content; calls on platforms to implement targeted measures to mitigate those risks, including cooperation with and training of educators, social workers and carers to provide guidance and protection;

Or. en

Amendment 227

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content;	11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content; in particular, urges online platforms and the developers and producers of video games to guarantee that their designs feature strong child protection safeguards, including by means of safety-by-design, ethical design standards and bans on normalising physical and verbal violence; in this regard, calls on the Commission and Member States to take into account Parliament's resolution of 10 November 2022 on esports and video games, which recognises the cultural and economic value of the sector but also its potential risks;

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Amendment 228

Zsuzsanna Borvendég

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content;	11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful and addictive content through proactive moderation and default safety measures; calls on the Member States to introduce clear warnings about the developmental risks of excessive screen use and to promote parental tools for setting time limits and content restrictions; underlines that families and national authorities bear primary responsibility for child protection online, supported by awareness campaigns and best national practices;

Or. en

Amendment 229

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content;	11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content; stresses the need to address dark patterns, commodification of insecurities, and targeted ads preying on vulnerabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 230

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content;	11. Urges online platforms to take the protection of minors from harmful or manipulative content seriously and comply to the highest level of safety, privacy and security as set in article 28(1) of the Digital Services Act and the guidelines on the Protection of minors, and stop recommendations based on constant tracking of behaviour and clicks and interaction;

Or. en

Amendment 231

Sibylle Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content;	11. Urges the Commission to remind online platforms of their responsibility to protect minors from harmful or manipulative content and to take remedial action, including by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content;

Or. en

Amendment 232

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by ensuring proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content;	11. Urges online platforms to take greater responsibility for protecting minors from harmful or manipulative content, by strengthening proactive moderation, default safety measures and algorithmic adjustments to prevent exposure to addictive or deceitful content;

Or. en

Amendment 233

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to require, where AI conversational agents are youth-facing or accessible to minors, mandatory safeguards modelled on best practice legislation — including prominent disclosures that the interlocutor is an AI, default safety modes for minors, requirement to direct users expressing self-harm ideation to helplines, and strict age assurance for chat interfaces — and to ensure those safeguards specifically consider girls’ increased vulnerability to emotional manipulation and grooming;

Or. en

Amendment 234

Hélder Sousa Silva, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Expresses concern about the growing spread of AI-generated deepfakes used to deceive, bully or manipulate young people, eroding trust and safety; calls for cooperation between schools, media organisations and research institutions to raise awareness and explain how they are created and detected; further invites the Commission to assess whether additional safeguards are needed to address the specific risks posed by deepfakes and to protect young users in educational and social settings;

Or. en

Amendment 235

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Underlines that regulated media service providers, in particular public service media given their public service remit, offer a broad range of content and services for minors that are adapted to their development needs; calls on online platforms to ensure their recommender systems and content moderation mechanisms give priority to reliable, high-quality, and age-appropriate content and services provided by professional media organisations;

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Amendment 236

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with relevant bodies, platforms and experts, to develop specific guidelines and tools to combat the spread of disinformation targeting minors; stresses the need to integrate the labelling of suspicious content, the removal of clearly false information that may endanger children’s health or safety, and the promotion of reliable sources through educational tools and algorithmic recommendations;

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Amendment 237

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Annamária Vicsek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11a. Stresses that unintentional or early access to pornographic content can have adverse effects on the psychological, emotional and sexual development of children and adolescents; stresses that platforms disseminating or hosting such content should be subject to enhanced age verification and access control obligations, in order to effectively prevent minors from accessing it;

Or. fr

Amendment 238

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Expresses concern about the growing evidence of the use of certain social media platforms, including TikTok, by organised criminal networks to recruit, exploit or mislead young users; calls on the Commission and Europol to strengthen monitoring, cooperation and enforcement mechanisms to prevent and counter criminal activities facilitated through digital platforms;

Or. en

Amendment 239

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11a. Highlights its concern over the worrying increase in deepfakes, and especially manipulated content detrimental to the reputation of young people and women; calls for the introduction of mandatory visible labelling measures for materials generated or modified by artificial intelligence and swift procedures to remove falsified content detrimental to minors;

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Amendment 240

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to regulate online games and applications that incorporate paid purchase or reward systems (“loot boxes”), which induce compulsive behavior in minors and expose them to forms of digital gambling;

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Amendment 241

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 a. Calls for protective defaults such as autoplay off, no infinite scroll, reset or opt-out functions for personalised feeds and time and notification limits;

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Amendment 242

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 b. Calls on the Commission, within the framework of the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act, to close existing regulatory gaps, particularly regarding addictive and manipulative design features of digital services, including so-called “dark patterns”, personalised advertising practices and unfair commercial practices by influencers; stresses that the main objective of the new regulation should be to strengthen the protection of children and young users online, while avoiding overlaps with existing legislation;

Or. en

Amendment 243

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 b. Encourages the adoption and calls for increased visibility of the PEGI age-rating system across online storefronts, platforms and consoles; calls on the Commission to work with PEGI and national authorities to ensure ratings are prominent in digital storefront metadata, that age controls are interoperable across platforms;

Or. en

Amendment 244

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 c. Urges videogame industry stakeholders to develop and adopt a voluntary Code of Conduct for online multiplayer games and game-related streaming services, setting common standards for moderation, child-friendly reporting mechanisms, escalation and banning procedures for abusive behaviour, and transparent rules for dealing with harmful ‘toxic’ chat and hate speech; calls for this Code to include recommended technical measures (such as default chat muting for minors, keyword-based filters and accessible reporting) and to be developed in consultation with representatives of children, educators, researchers and civil society;

Or. en

Amendment 245

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	11 d. Calls on platform operators hosting live streams of video-game content to require streamers to label explicitly when content includes gambling-like mechanics, real-money wagering, or other age-restricted elements; urges platforms to implement protective defaults for users who are likely to be minors such as blurring before showing adult-flagged streams, hiding donation or paid gambling overlays from minor accounts, and reducing discoverability of adult-flagged streams on the feeds of minor accounts, while ensuring such measures are proportionate and respect freedom of expression;

Or. en

Amendment 246

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;	12. Stresses the importance of prevention of bullying online and offline and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes; highlights the need to treat online and offline bullying holistically, recognizing their interconnected nature, such as how digital gossip often extends from or amplifies school-based harassment, and providing targeted, and where possible individually tailored support for young people in school, at home, in institutional care and in other communal and social environments; stresses that such support must bridge the digital and physical environments;

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Amendment 247

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;	12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes; stresses the importance of mandatory school protocols for preventing and responding to online harassment, as well as cooperation and response protocols for violence in the digital environment between relevant systems such as social services, education and the police; highlights the need to ensure an adequate number of professionals trained to address cyber trauma in children and young people, as well as in parents, guardians and professionals working with children;

Or. en

Amendment 248

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;	12. Stresses the importance of adopting a preventive approach to online risks, with a particular focus on young people’s mental and physical well-being, through ethical guidance and awareness programmes promoting respect, privacy and the responsible use of digital tools, as well as educational resources, such as media literacy and digital learning, for teachers, families and caregivers, and peer support structures, including anti-bullying initiatives both online and offline;

Or. en

Amendment 249

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;	12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying and hate speech prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying and anti-hate speech programmes and clear information on the serious psychological repercussions which can ensue, particularly as regards the most vulnerable young people;

Or. it

Amendment 250

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;	12. Stresses that cyberbullying happens wherever children interact online, including on social media, video-sharing platforms, messaging platforms, online forums, gaming platforms; Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;

Or. en

Amendment 251

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;	12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers as well as other educators and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;

Or. en

Amendment 252

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;	12. Stresses the importance of cyberbullying prevention and response tools, including awareness programmes, educational resources for teachers and families, school counsellors and peer support structures, such as anti-bullying programmes;

Or. en

Amendment 253

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Notes that detecting online hate remains challenging; underlines that effective detection requires coordinated efforts by multiple actors; stresses that content moderators play a crucial role in addressing online hate; encourages platforms to engage with independent civil society experts and researchers in developing and delivering training for content moderators, as well as regular and detailed public reporting on the prevalence and removal of hate content; stresses that such transparency is essential to reveal the true extent of online hate, to identify potential algorithmic biases in detection systems, and to ensure accountability;

Or. en

Amendment 254

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Stresses that for cyberbullying prevention strategies to be effective, the design and features of platforms where those behaviours take place must be made safe by design and by default and must include the possibility to block and report harmful contact and conduct; recalls online platforms must ensure swift and proportionate response to cyberbullying related content and conduct, and transparently report on the prevalence, use, enforcement actions and response times;

Or. en

Amendment 255

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to develop a comprehensive strategy on bullying and cyberbullying at all levels of the educational environment, from early childhood education to higher education, promoting coordination, prevention, early detection, and support mechanisms for victims;

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Amendment 256

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Highlights that specific behaviours, like non-consensual sexting, revenge porn, and grooming pose unique and severe threats to young people; encourages specialist interventions and regulatory safeguards is essential to protect young people from these evolving forms of online harm;

Or. en

Amendment 257

Ioan-Rareş Bogdan

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12a. Calls on the Commission to bring forward rules for online platform owners to provide minors with an interface to report harassment, drafted in a language that highlights both the danger of minors allowing themselves be manipulated, influenced, humiliated and controlled, and their power to prevent this from happening;

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Amendment 258

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Calls on the Commission to establish, in cooperation with Member States and relevant stakeholders, a common definition of cyberbullying at EU level, in order to ensure consistency in the exchange of best practices and the implementation of support measures for victims;

Or. en

Amendment 259

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 a. Stresses that AI-enabled image-based abuse is a growing form of gender-based violence online; calls for a coordinated EU approach combining legal prohibitions, victim support, platform accountability, digital literacy and technological counter-measures;

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Amendment 260

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 b. Recognises that Roma children and young people are among the groups most vulnerable to online hate speech and cyberbullying, due to structural discrimination they already face offline; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote policies and measures for the protection of children and youth online explicitly addressing the specific challenges faced by Roma children and adolescents; calls on platforms to implement training of both human moderators and automated classifiers to detect antigypsyism;

Or. en

Amendment 261

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 b. Calls on the Commission, within the forthcoming EU Action Plan on cyberbullying, to establish a European mechanism for the exchange of best practices among Member States; underlines the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation between educational institutions, law enforcement authorities and relevant child protection services in preventing and early detecting cases of cyberbullying;

Or. en

Amendment 262

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 b. Recognises that minors can be both victims and perpetrators of online offences, including the creation of deepfakes, the non-consensual sharing of intimate images and other forms of sexual image-based harm; calls for mechanisms that address such behaviour in a manner that is proportionate, child-rights-compliant and focused on education, prevention and accountability;

Or. en

Amendment 263

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 b. Notes that special attention should be paid to the disproportionate impact of cyberbullying and online harassment on girls, LGBTIQ+ youth, children with disabilities and those from vulnerable backgrounds, ensuring effective prevention and response tools tailored to their needs;

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Amendment 264

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	12 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure long-term and sustainable funding, as well as systematic national visibility, for Helplines and Hotlines operating within the Safer Internet Centres (SIC) network; stresses that these are key tools providing immediate, professional, and anonymous support to children and parents facing abuse or exposure to inappropriate online content;

Or. en

Amendment 265

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Stresses the need for full transparency in influencer advertising that targets minors; underlines the importance of sponsorship disclosures and ethical standards for influencers targeting children, highlighting the risk of misleading marketing when advertisements are hidden as organic content;	13. Stresses the need for full transparency in influencer advertising that targets minors; underlines the importance of sponsorship disclosures and ethical standards for influencers targeting children, highlighting the risk of misleading marketing when advertisements are hidden as organic content; calls on the Commission and Member States to introduce specific rules concerning so-called 'baby influencers' to prevent parents or guardians from exploiting the children involved by guaranteeing that any potential earnings are afforded similar protections to those granted to the earnings of child actors or artists and by guaranteeing that the children's online presence fully respects their rights and dignity;

Or. it

Amendment 266

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
13. Stresses the need for full transparency in influencer advertising that targets minors; underlines the importance of sponsorship disclosures and ethical standards for influencers targeting children, highlighting the risk of misleading marketing when advertisements are hidden as organic content;	13. Stresses the need for full transparency in influencer advertising that targets minors; underlines the importance of enforceable sponsorship disclosures and ethical standards for influencers targeting children, highlighting the risk of misleading marketing when advertisements are hidden as organic content, such as consumption of unhealthy foods or engaging in gambling and gambling-like practices; calls on online platforms to jointly set up an industry standard for clear labelling requirements for digitally altered images as to counter harmful narratives that negatively affect the mental health and body image of young people;

Or. en

Amendment 267

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Highlights that social media influencers play an increasingly significant role in shaping the perceptions, aspirations and social attitudes of children and young people; underlines that the content shared by many influencers often may portray a highly curated and unrealistic standard of life, success and appearance, which can lead to feelings of inadequacy among young people; underlines that such online environments may also contribute to the spread of polarising narratives and the radicalisation of views, including related to gender roles and norms; calls on the Commission, Member States and platforms to development of a code of conduct for influencers and agencies at EU level, including commitments to responsible advertising towards minors and the avoidance of harmful or misleading content;

Or. en

Amendment 268

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Expresses deep concern at the growing influence of organised misogynistic communities, including the “manosphere” and incel networks, which exploit mainstream cultural moments to recruit and radicalise young users; notes that such ecosystems fuel discriminatory gender norms, promote unhealthy and harmful models of masculinity, and increase the risk of online and offline gender-based violence against women and girls, while also harming boys’ and men’s mental health; calls on platforms to monitor and disrupt coordinated amplification of such content, to remove organisational accounts driving mobilisation, and to report on actions taken; urges the Commission and the Member States to strengthen digital awareness measures and interventions addressing these phenomena;

Or. en

Amendment 269

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Calls on the Commission, in the context of the upcoming revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive and the upcoming Digital Fairness Act, to consider introducing specific measures for detecting, reporting, and preventing live streams containing violence, humiliation, incitement to self-harm, or other forms of pathological content; stresses that such content, often accessible to minors, can encourage risky behaviour, normalise violence, and negatively affect the mental health of young people;

Or. en

Amendment 270

Ioan-Rareş Bogdan

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13a. Calls on the Commission to bring forward rules that ensure complete transparency over the financing of content accessible to minors, and which enable identification by their parents, as part of parental control, and by the direct users, of the primary source of sponsorship, since many Russian websites are known to use EU vehicles to conceal their own presence in such cases;

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Amendment 271

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13a. Calls for a ban on behavioural advertising to minors and the imposition of clear standards for influencer marketing to children, including the obligation of visible tagging of sponsored content, regular audits and penalties for platforms that do not remove covert advertising;

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Amendment 272

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 a. Calls on the Commission to put a regulatory framework in place safeguarding children as influencers and preventing their exploitation;

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Amendment 273

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 b. Stresses that children and young people are exposed daily to commercial content online that encourages overconsumption and spending, often through subtle “nudging” mechanisms in games, social media, and influencer content; warns that such practices may lead financial vulnerability from a young age; underlines the importance of promoting critical thinking and financial literacy among minors; stresses the importance of developing age-appropriate financial literacy programmes and interactive tools; calls on the Member States to include digital marketing and persuasive design as part of educational programmes and school curricula, which teach young users to critically assess spending prompts, while respecting the principles of a free market;

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Amendment 274

Ioan-Rareş Bogdan

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13b. The rules under paragraph 13a must provide that the financer needs to be disclosed, that failure to do so will result in access to the content being restricted and, should such a restriction be imposed, that a message be posted announcing the penalty with the explanation 'this content has been blocked because the financer is unknown, as are the intentions of the site as regards children';

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Amendment 275

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 b. Calls on the Commission to take into account the progress made by some Member States in addressing sharenting, and to consider measures to limit this practice in order to protect children’s right to their own image and prevent their digital overexposure;

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Amendment 276

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	13 c. Stresses the need for dedicated research into neuromarketing and its effects on children and adolescents; calls on the Commission to ensuring that the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act addresses this issue;

Or. en

Amendment 277

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Notes that social media plays a key role in youth mobilisations and awareness campaigns, demonstrating its power to drive meaningful participation; highlights that social media can both facilitate and hinder youth political engagement;	14. Notes that social media plays a key role in youth mobilisations and awareness campaigns, demonstrating its power to drive meaningful participation; highlights that social media can both facilitate and hinder youth political engagement; recognises the positive role played by non-profit platforms that are distributed and managed by the community, such as online encyclopaedias, in empowering young people — including minorities and marginalised groups — by fostering meaningful democratic participation and providing them with strong media and digital literacy skills;

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Amendment 278

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Notes that social media plays a key role in youth mobilisations and awareness campaigns, demonstrating its power to drive meaningful participation; highlights that social media can both facilitate and hinder youth political engagement;	14. Notes that social media plays a key role in youth mobilisations and awareness campaigns, demonstrating its power to drive meaningful participation; highlights that social media can both facilitate and hinder youth political engagement; calls for further investments in media literacy to foster critical engagement and resilience against misinformation and disinformation, including through citizenship education;

Or. en

Amendment 279

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Notes that social media plays a key role in youth mobilisations and awareness campaigns, demonstrating its power to drive meaningful participation; highlights that social media can both facilitate and hinder youth political engagement;	14. Notes that social media plays a key role in youth mobilisations and awareness campaigns, demonstrating its power to drive meaningful participation; highlights that social media can facilitate, hinder and influence youth political engagement; therefore highlights the need to maintain a free and plural social and digital environment;

Or. en

Amendment 280

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
14. Notes that social media plays a key role in youth mobilisations and awareness campaigns, demonstrating its power to drive meaningful participation; highlights that social media can both facilitate and hinder youth political engagement;	14. Notes that social media plays a key role in youth mobilisations and awareness campaigns, demonstrating its power to drive meaningful participation; highlights that social media can both facilitate and hinder youth political engagement though political engagement remains uneven across regions and communities;

Or. en

Amendment 281

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	14 a. Calls on the Commission to put forward a Strategy on Citizenship Education that sets out a common vision, proposes concrete actions and establishes benchmarks to assist Member States in improving the quality of their citizenship education; underlines that the Strategy must include age-appropriate digital citizenship education, that values critical thinking, ethics, respect for others, inclusion and active participation in society to counteract the negative effects of excessive and problematic social media use;

Or. en

Amendment 282

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	14 b. Highlights the need for meaningful youth participation in policy-making on digital technologies and safer online environments, guaranteeing that youth voices are heard, youth perspectives are taken on board and young people’s rights are being preserved; calls on the Commission to accelerate youth participation initiatives, such as the Youth check and the President’s Youth Advisory Board, with a stronger focus on the online space as factor in young people’s lives; stresses that youth voices must be placed at the centre of the EU-wide inquiry on the broader impacts of social media;

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Amendment 283

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Warns that algorithmic biases and intense content personalisation increase the risk of youth radicalisation and polarisation;	15. Warns that algorithmic biases and intense content personalisation increase the risk of youth radicalisation and polarisation; notes with concern the development of echo chambers and radicalisation online due to recommender systems that favor extreme content and make profit and attention prevail over safety; is concerned by the influence such measures could have on young people and our democracies in general 1a;
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	1a Council of the European Union, 2020: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-12735-2020-INIT/en/pdf

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Amendment 284

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Warns that algorithmic biases and intense content personalisation increase the risk of youth radicalisation and polarisation;	15. Warns that algorithmic biases and intense content personalisation increase the risk of youth radicalisation and polarisation; stresses the need for specific measures to limit the exposure of young people to extremist content and hate speech, including through cooperation with youth organisations and civil society actors; calls on the Commission to include the protection of young people from online radicalisation in the future strategy for digital democracy and civic education;

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Amendment 285

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Warns that algorithmic biases and intense content personalisation increase the risk of youth radicalisation and polarisation;	15. Warns that algorithmic biases and intense content personalisation increase the risk of youth radicalisation and polarisation, underlining that adequate media literacy and digital learning can help young people navigate online environments critically, responsibly and safely, thereby reducing these risks;

Or. en

Amendment 286

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
15. Warns that algorithmic biases and intense content personalisation increase the risk of youth radicalisation and polarisation;	15. Warns that algorithmic biases and intense content personalisation increase the risk of youth radicalisation and polarisation; calls for transparency in recommender systems on all platforms;

Or. en

Amendment 287

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	15 a. Expresses deep concern that the Commission’s proposed guidelines on the protection of minors under the DSA do not rule out engagement-based recommender systems completely, based on clicks, interactions, views and comments, and therefore fail to protect both minors and parents sufficiently against addictive, radicalising, hate and disinformation-spreading engagement-based recommender systems;

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Amendment 288

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 12

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
Inclusion, equity and accessibility	deleted

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Amendment 289

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	15 a. Stresses that in Member States where minors do not have the right to vote, they should not be exposed to or targeted by political parties, governments, candidates or any other political actors for campaigning and vote appeal purposes; calls on video-sharing platforms, social media networks and other online service providers to ensure that political advertising and campaigning content is not directed at, or made accessible through targeted delivery mechanisms to, persons under the age of 18; calls further on the Commission and the Member States to establish clear transparency and accountability requirements for online platforms to prevent and monitor breaches of this prohibition, while promoting the protection of children and young people from undue political influence in the digital environment and upholding their right to access information and participate in democracy;

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Amendment 290

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised identities in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging;	deleted

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Amendment 291

Zsuzsanna Borvendég

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised identities in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 292

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised identities in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging;	16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised groups in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging; stresses that most vulnerable young people disproportionately experience negative impacts of social media and digital environment;

Or. en

Amendment 293

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Laurence Farreng, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised identities in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging;	16. Recognises the positive potential of social media and online environments for young people’s learning, creativity, peer support, cultural understanding and civic engagement; stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised identities in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging;

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Amendment 294

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised identities in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging;	16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised identities in social media, with particular attention to users with disabilities;

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Amendment 295

Annamária Vicsek, András Gyürk, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised identities in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging;	16. Stresses the importance of fair representation of minorities and marginalised groups in social media spaces to foster inclusion and belonging;

Or. en

Amendment 296

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 a. Stresses that antigypsyism constitutes a specific form of racism, rooted in historical discrimination and social exclusion of Roma and Traveller communities; underlines that antigypsyism often remains undetected, as it is not always recognised as a form of discrimination by institutions or the wider public; stresses, therefore, the need to provide regular and comprehensive training for platforms, content reviewers and relevant stakeholders on the detection, recognition and effective response to antigypsyism, in order to ensure equal protection and accountability; stresses that organisations representing groups with limited resources, including minority and marginalised communities, such as Roma, should not be disadvantaged in efforts to combat online hate;

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Amendment 297

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	16 a. Draws attention to persistent disparities in internet access and digital literacy, which deepen exclusion among vulnerable youth;

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Amendment 298

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that girls and young women are more exposed to social media harms, including body image pressure, harassment, and misogynistic content; stresses the need for gender-sensitive digital safeguards to ensure safe, inclusive and empowering online environments for all young users;	17. Highlights that girls and young women are more exposed to social media harms, including body image pressure, harassment, and misogynistic content; stresses the need for gender-sensitive digital and political safeguards to ensure safe, inclusive and empowering online environments for all young users; calls on platforms to implement swift mechanisms for reporting and removing misogynistic content, to prevent algorithmic recommendations that amplify gender stereotypes and to support positive campaigns on body image and gender equality;

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Amendment 299

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that girls and young women are more exposed to social media harms, including body image pressure, harassment, and misogynistic content; stresses the need for gender-sensitive digital safeguards to ensure safe, inclusive and empowering online environments for all young users;	17. Highlights that girls and young women are more exposed to social media harms, including body image pressure, harassment, and misogynistic content, which can lead to eating disorders, self-harming behaviors and, in severe cases, extreme actions; therefore stresses the need for gender-sensitive digital safeguards to ensure safe, inclusive and empowering online environments for all young users;

Or. en

Amendment 300

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Annamária Vicsek

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that girls and young women are more exposed to social media harms, including body image pressure, harassment, and misogynistic content; stresses the need for gender-sensitive digital safeguards to ensure safe, inclusive and empowering online environments for all young users;	17. Highlights that girls and young women are more exposed to social media harms, including body image pressure such as the promotion of extreme thinness, harassment, and misogynistic content; stresses the need for gender-sensitive digital safeguards to ensure safe, inclusive and empowering online environments for all young users;

Or. fr

Amendment 301

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
17. Highlights that girls and young women are more exposed to social media harms, including body image pressure, harassment, and misogynistic content; stresses the need for gender-sensitive digital safeguards to ensure safe, inclusive and empowering online environments for all young users;	17. Highlights that girls and young women disproportionately exposed to social media harms, including body image pressure, harassment, and misogynistic content; stresses the need for gender-sensitive digital safeguards to ensure safe, inclusive and empowering online environments for all young users;

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Amendment 302

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	17 a. Requires platforms to apply prioritised, time-bound moderation and takedown procedures for content and accounts linked to gender-based harms (including image-based sexual abuse, sextortion, grooming, and targeted misogynistic campaigns), and to publish disaggregated transparency reporting on such actions by age and gender where feasible and privacy-preserving;

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Amendment 303

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	17 a. Stresses that gender-based online violence, including sextortion, hate speech, stalking, image-based sexual abuse, grooming and non-consensual sharing of intimate material, must be addressed as a priority;

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Amendment 304

Catherine Griset, Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 14

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
Education, digital skills and media literacy	Digital education and skills

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Amendment 305

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively;	18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively; calls, therefore, on the Commission and Member States to reinforce existing digital literacy programmes, and support the development of new age-appropriate programmes and interactive educational tools, co-designed with educators and civil society; underlines that such programmes and tools should equip children and adolescents with the skills to critically engage with AI technologies, including awareness of persuasive design, and emotional profiling;

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Amendment 306

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively;	18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively; calls for the inclusion of media literacy and AI literacy in school curricula and continuing education programmes for teachers, as well as for tailored resources for parents and young content creators, with special support for children from vulnerable backgrounds;

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Amendment 307

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively;	18. Highlights that parents, teachers and youth workers have a crucial role to play in guiding and supporting young people towards responsible and safe online behaviour, and therefore calls for adequate support, resources and training to enable them to promote media literacy and digital resilience among children and adolescents;

Or. en

Amendment 308

Zsuzsanna Borvendég

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively;	18. Emphasises that digital and media literacy should be taught in close cooperation with parents and families, ensuring that the educational content reflects cultural and ethical values specific to each Member State; underlines that education on responsible online behaviour should include respect, self-control and family involvement;

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Amendment 309

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively;	18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively; stresses the crucial link with local and regional authorities, such as municipalities, in implementing and supporting these efforts;

Or. en

Amendment 310

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and the critical thinking needed to navigate social media safely and effectively;	18. Highlights the key role of both formal and non-formal education in equipping young people with the digital skills and critical competences needed to navigate social media safely and effectively, including critical thinking, reading comprehension and the ability to protect oneself in digital environments;

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Amendment 311

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Notes that the EU’s Better Internet for Kids (BIK+) strategy promotes digital literacy and online safety for young people, yet AI literacy is not widely integrated into education systems; stresses the importance of equipping children and young people, particularly girls and young women, with AI and digital literacy skills to enable their full and safe participation in the digital society; calls on the Commission and the Member States to integrate AI literacy into educational frameworks and to ensure that educators are adequately supported by ethical guidelines on the use of AI and data in teaching;

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Amendment 312

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Calls on the Member States to include media and digital literacy as a mandatory component of the school curriculum from an early age; calls for systematic training of teachers, school counsellors and educational professionals on online safety, disinformation, artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, and critical engagement with digital content;

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Amendment 313

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Underlines the importance of establishing digital literacy programs to train families and teachers on the healthy and safe use of social media and digital platforms, particularly regarding the tools available to them to limit exposure to online hazards and content harmful to young people;

Or. en

Amendment 314

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Underlines the need to provide continuous training for teachers to strengthen digital pedagogy and promote safe classroom practices, extending such training and awareness programmes to parents and caregivers in order to build a supportive and informed digital education community;

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Amendment 315

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Calls for regular teacher, carer and youth worker professional development on digital literacy and on how to make informed professional judgements on when and how to make the best use of digital tools in education and youth work;

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Amendment 316

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Recalls the competence of the Member States in the protection of young people on the digital environment, as well as the important role of local authorities, community organisations and social workers;

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Amendment 317

Sabrina Repp, Hannes Heide, Nikos Papandreou, Emma Rafowicz

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Highlights the importance of a stronger role of Erasmus+ and other EU Youth Programs in this context as they promote democratic engagement, media literacy and cross-border dialogue among young people;

Or. en

Amendment 318

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 a. Recalls that Member States have the obligation, under the AVMSD, to promote and take measures for the development of media literacy skills and to report to the Commission on the matter;

Or. en

Amendment 319

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 14 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Takes notes that the efforts to empower users through media literacy and content labelling vary widely across platforms and result in lack of transparency on geographic scope, user engagement, and measurable outcomes; calls on audiovisual media service providers and video sharing platforms to comply with their obligations in this regard in the framework of the AVMS and the Code of Practice of disinformation1a;
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	1a https://edmo.eu/publications/implementing-the-eu-code-of-practice-on-disinformation-an-evaluation-of-vlopse-compliance-and-effectiveness-jan-jun-2024/

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Amendment 320

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 b. Calls on the Member States to consider introducing clear rules on the use of mobile devices in schools, particularly at early and primary education levels, with exceptions for educational purposes, and to ensure secure internet networks and safe device storage; stresses the need to monitor the effects of such measures on learning, concentration, and peer-related online violence;

Or. en

Amendment 321

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 b. Encourages schools and youth organisations to continuously foster digital literacy, which includes teaching to consciously switch off from digital platforms, critical thinking, to recognise and resist propaganda and manipulative design features such as infinite scroll and autoplay, avoid compulsive doomscrolling and strengthen concentration, autonomy and resilience;

Or. en

Amendment 322

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 b. Stresses the importance of preparing learners for emerging digital challenges, including artificial intelligence and algorithms; at the same time, recognises the positive potential of digital environments in encouraging creativity, fostering social participation, and strengthening learners' citizenship and sense of belonging to the community;

Or. en

Amendment 323

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 b. Highlights the importance of ensuring that young people have access to reliable, evidence-based and age-appropriate information on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); stresses that, in the absence of trustworthy sources, young people may turn to social media content that is inaccurate, misleading or harmful;

Or. en

Amendment 324

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 c. Welcomes the Commission's Basic Skills Action Plan of 5 March 2025 and its inclusion of digital skills in its core set of skills; highlights the importance of recognising that digital skills are a complex set of competences that include information literacy, communication, media literacy, digital content creation, online safety and digital well-being; urges the Commission to deliver on the actions set out in the Action Plan, in particular the delivery guidelines and best practices on advancing the assessment of digital skills in education and the updating of the Digital Competence Framework to take into account emerging technologies;

Or. en

Amendment 325

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 c. Stresses the importance of comprehensive, evidence-based, age-appropriate and intersectional sexuality and relationships education aimed at fostering healthy relationships and attitudes, eradicating gender stereotypes and fostering gender inequality in the face of growing risks online; calls on the Commission to put forward EU guidelines for comprehensive and age-appropriate sexuality and relationships education;

Or. en

Amendment 326

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 c. Calls on the Member States to provide systematic, free, and easily accessible education for parents and guardians; stresses that such education should cover not only technical aspects such as privacy settings and content filtering options, but also psychosocial skills to build trust and open communication with children about their online experiences, risk awareness, and reporting mechanisms;

Or. en

Amendment 327

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 14 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	Calls on the Member States to ensure that all children receive relatable, evidence-based education around social media literacy, digital literacy including digital consent and digital ethics, image based sexual abuse, online gender-based violence and gender norms, as well as comprehensive, age-appropriate sexuality education;

Or. en

Amendment 328

Marcos Ros Sempere

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 c. Emphasises the need to ensure inclusion and equal access to digital and media literacy education for all children and young people, in particular those from vulnerable backgrounds, including learners with disabilities, those living in rural or remote areas, and those from low-income families, so that no one is left behind;

Or. en

Amendment 329

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 d. Welcomes the upcoming Commssion pilot for the first European Schools Alliances, promoting school cooperation for innovative teaching methods, curricula and competence frameworks; underlines that innovation in digital and media literacy education can benefit from a targeted boost in innovation and calls on the Commission to make digital literacy and education a chief priority when piloting the European Schools Alliances;

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Amendment 330

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	18 d. Calls on the Member States and online platforms to establish permanent mechanisms for regular consultation with children and young people when designing safety features, reporting tools, and educational materials, ensuring that such solutions reflect their actual needs and patterns of technology use;

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Amendment 331

Lara Magoni, Chiara Gemma, Marco Squarta, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
19. Stresses the need for increased transparency around social media algorithmic systems, as opaque algorithms and content moderation hinder young users’ ability to comprehend why certain content is recommended, suppressed or removed, thus undermining their capacity to navigate online content intentionally;	19. Stresses the need for increased transparency around social media algorithmic systems, as opaque algorithms and content moderation hinder young users’ understanding, therefore calls on platforms to facilitate the understanding of algorithms and clearly inform users about content moderation criteria, thereby enabling them to navigate online content intentionally;

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Amendment 332

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Calls on social media platforms to ensure transparency, accountability and child-friendly design by providing clear explanations of algorithmic mechanisms, visible moderation reasons, easy reporting and remedy tools, and by adopting robust external auditing mechanisms in line with the DSA; further urges the Commission to strengthen safeguards through algorithmic impact assessments, transparency obligations and oversight by the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT), to promote fairness, pluralism and youth resilience online;

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Amendment 333

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Insists that the main problem on social media remains recommender algorithms that prioritises engagement over safety; recalls that social media shall provide alternative recommender systems not based on profiling as provided in the Article 38 of the DSA; highlights that this alternative should be set as default;

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Amendment 334

Gabriela Firea

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19a. Calls on large platforms to guarantee accredited researchers access to aggregated data on the exposure of minors to facilitate independent analyses of the impact of algorithms and persuasive design; the results should be published regularly, for the whole EU;

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Amendment 335

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 a. Highlights that gender bias in AI systems can lead to discriminatory outcomes; urges the Member States to adopt measures to mitigate such bias, including the use of clear, representative, high-quality data, the establishment of human oversight mechanisms;

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Amendment 336

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 b. Notes with concern that algorithmic systems often monetarily reward misogynistic, sexualised, extreme or outrageous content, thereby reinforcing gendered harms and exposing girls and young women to disproportionate risks; calls on platforms to review their recommender systems and remove financial incentives that contribute to the amplification of such harmful content;

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Amendment 337

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 b. Recalls that both the GDPR and the DSA provide mandatory transparency for recommender systems and targeted advertisement considering that they rely on automated processing of personal data; Insists that the Article 27 of the DSA requires that the user is given control over the parameters of the recommender system;

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Amendment 338

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 c. Calls on the Commission to fund and coordinate a targeted research programme on gendered online harms affecting children and adolescents, including independent audits of recommender systems and longitudinal studies on the relationship between platform exposure and onset/worsening of body image disorders among girls; stresses that data produced should be gender-disaggregated and made available to regulators and trusted researchers under strict privacy safeguards;

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Amendment 339

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 d. Calls for stronger restrictions on targeted advertising that exploits body-image vulnerabilities or sexualises minors — including prohibiting the micro-targeting of ads for diet products, weight-loss services, or sexualised content to audiences likely to contain under-18s or those identified by algorithmic inferences as at-risk; further calls for mandatory auditing of ad-delivery systems to detect differential exposure of girls to harmful commercial messages;

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Amendment 340

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 c. Notes that enforcement of EU digital legislation should be gender-sensitive and ensure that reporting and redress mechanisms are accessible to all, including children facing multiple forms of discrimination;

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Amendment 341

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	19 d. Underlines the importance of the collection of data disaggregated by gender and age, and, where possible by gender identity, racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, sex characteristics and disability;

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Amendment 342

Carolina Morace, Dario Tamburrano, Mario Furore

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the BIK+ strategy in addressing current online risks for young people, and to align its evaluation with evolving challenges, such as algorithmic harms and persuasive design;	20. Calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the BIK+ strategy in addressing current online risks for young people, and to align its evaluation with evolving challenges, such as algorithmic harms and persuasive design; calls on the Commission to promote and support data collection and analysis programmes concerning the psychological, social and behavioural effects of using social media and technologies based on artificial intelligence, especially among young people, with a view to adopting preventive and corrective measures that are supported by scientific evidence;

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Amendment 343

Sunčana Glavak, Milan Zver, Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Giusi Princi, Manuela Ripa, Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the BIK+ strategy in addressing current online risks for young people, and to align its evaluation with evolving challenges, such as algorithmic harms and persuasive design;	20. Calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the BIK+ strategy in addressing current online risks for young people, and to align its evaluation with evolving challenges, such as algorithmic harms and persuasive design; stresses that the effective implementation of the existing legislative framework requires systematic monitoring across the Member States, including the development of comparable indicators on children’s digital habits, the availability of education, and the impact of protection measures;

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Amendment 344

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
20. Calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the BIK+ strategy in addressing current online risks for young people, and to align its evaluation with evolving challenges, such as algorithmic harms and persuasive design;	20. Calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the BIK+ strategy and the Youth Strategy in addressing current online risks for young people, to align their content and implementation with evolving challenges, such as algorithmic harms and persuasive design, and to integrate findings from the EU Youth Dialogue into their implementation to ensure young people's voices shape future initiatives;

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Amendment 345

Sandro Ruotolo, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Gabriela Firea, Maria Guzenina, Marcos Ros Sempere, Nikos Papandreou, Sabrina Repp

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Welcomes the Communication on the European Democracy Shield and, in particular, the proposal for the establishment of a European Centre for Democratic Resilience as an important step towards strengthening the EU’s capacity to anticipate, detect and respond to disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI); stresses, however, the need to ensure that this framework includes a permanent, year-round monitoring and rapid response capability operating under clear democratic oversight, full transparency, and in close coordination with independent fact-checkers, researchers and media organisations;

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Amendment 346

Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Eleonora Meleti, Sunčana Glavak

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Urges the Commission, the Board for Digital Services Coordinators, the European Board for Media Services and the relevant national authorities to closely monitor and evaluate the efficiency of measures taken by online platforms to protect minors and to coordinate their activities; calls on the Commission to evaluate whether stricter measures are needed to shield minors from online harm and ensure they experience a safe digital environment;

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Amendment 347

Zsuzsanna Borvendég

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Calls on the Member States to establish a National Digital Child Protection Fund financed partly by taxes or levies on digital services that promote harmful or addictive content for minors; stresses that the fund should support prevention, rehabilitation and awareness programmes, as well as research on the impact of digital tools on children’s mental health;

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Amendment 348

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness of the measures under the Digital Education Action Plan in addressing the needs of young people for acquiring skills to navigate the online environment, to avoid online risks and harmful content, and to avoid engaging in problematic or excessive use of social media;

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Amendment 349

Eleonora Meleti

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Welcomes Member States’ initiatives that assess digital maturity and calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of setting an EU-wide digital maturity age;

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Amendment 350

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 a. Calls to involve children and parents in designing, implementing and monitoring policies regarding protection of minors in the digital environment;

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Amendment 351

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 b. Underlines the mental and physical health effects of excessive screentime and problematic smartphone use; calls the Commission to urgently convene a health expert group to issue European evidence-based state-of-the-art health guidelines on screens for minors;

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Amendment 352

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 b. (new subheading) Research

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Amendment 353

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 c. Welcomes the EU-wide inquiry on the broader impacts of social media on the well-being of young people as a foundation for comprehensive research on the topic; calls for the launch of an European longitudinal research initiative on young people’s online behaviour, problematic and excessive use of social media, and on harmful content; underscores that such research must include representation of diverse groups of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, to address evidence gaps and inform policies; calls on platforms to work together with institutions on European, national and where appropriate regional level, to set up tools for users to share their opinions on social media use and give insights into their online behaviour and habits, thus enabling more granular research on the effects of the online environment and on mental and physical health; underlines that all tools must be voluntary and fully anonymous, disaggregated and in respect to data privacy requirements;

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Amendment 354

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 c (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 c. Recalls that most platforms still use dark patterns, infinite scrolling, gamification or autoplay; urges the Commission to take strong enforcement measures regarding these deceitful and addictive designs that particularly affect young people; calls, in addition, on the Commission to quickly propose a digital fairness act to ban the most harmful addictive design features for all online services and products and loot boxes1a;
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	1a https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2022/10/dark-commercial-patterns_9f6169cd/44f5e846-en.pdf

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Amendment 355

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 d. Notes that Ireland is responsible for enforcing the AVMSD against media service providers and large video-sharing platforms and the GDPR against social media platforms, online gaming and video-sharing platforms; calls on it to use its powers to protect minors in concert with the European Commission;

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Amendment 356

Hristo Petrov, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 d (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 d. Calls on the Commission to establish a European research observatory on young people's digital well-being, building on the EU-wide enquiry, to monitor trends and support evidence-based guidance for Member States;

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Amendment 357

Diana Riba i Giner

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 e (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 e. Stresses that enforcement authorities lack the human and financial resources both to carry out investigations and to ensure that the rules they are entrusted to enforce are respected; calls for an expansion of the resources available to national independent regulatory authorities; calls on the Commission to provide guidance to national authorities on how the provisions enshrined in the AVMSD, GDPR, and DSA overlap, and on how best to leverage them to hold online intermediaries accountable;

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Amendment 358

Hristo Petrov, Nikola Minchev, Eugen Tomac, Brigitte van den Berg

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 e (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	20 e. Calls for an independent longitudinal research into the mental health effects associated with monetisation models in video games and with the exposure of minors to adult game streams; suggests that part of this research be based on privacy-preserving platform metadata (e.g. anonymised spend patterns, prevalence of loot-box purchases by age, prevalence and moderation outcomes of abusive chat);

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Amendment 359

Maria Guzenina

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	21 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that platforms give easily accessible, age-appropriate paths to counselling and crisis support inside the platform experience (for example: one-click referral to national helplines, automatic signposting to specialised services for image-based abuse victims), with a specific focus on services designed for adolescent girls and intersectional vulnerabilities;

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