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Tiktok and Youtube deactivate 4.7 million accounts Photo: Reuters Social media platforms TikTok and YouTube have deactivated approximately 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under the age of 16 in Indonesia. The massive sweep comes as the country begins strictly enforcing aggressive new soci…

06/26/2026, 16.33 INDONESIA Send to a friend Some 4.7 million social media accounts of underage Indonesians closed In March, TikTok and YouTube implemented the measure at the request of the Indonesian government deactivating accounts of users under 16. Meanwhile, in Australia, the country that pione…

Indonesia’s regulations targeting child users push platforms to comply with stricter rules, with TikTok and YouTube leading account deactivations as enforcement ramps up across the broader digital ecosystem. Indonesia has begun enforcing sweeping restrictions on children’s access to social media…

PUBLISHED : 26 Jun 2026 at 14:34 WRITER: Reuters JAKARTA — Social ⁠media ⁠companies TikTok and YouTube ​have deactivated a total of around 4.7 million accounts ​belonging to children under ‌the age of 16 in Indonesia, the country's communications minister said, as its social media c…

Brussels-based impact fund Kampaniprovided a €1 million ($1.2 million) senior unsecured loan to the Union of Community Mutual Institutions for Savings and Credit, or U-IMEC, a rural microfinance network in Senegal that began as a union of savings and credit cooperatives in Senegal. The funding wil…

M-Pesa users make up 89% of mobile money subscribers in Kenya.(Source: Philip Mostert for Vodafone Group) Kenya added 2 million more mobile money accounts between January and March 2026. The country's total mobile money subscriptions increased from 51.4 million at the end of December 2025, to …