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The Education Minister is promising regulatory change to address social media harm, as a petition calling for a minimum age of 16 for social media access is handed over at Parliament.

National has been keen to implement a ban, but was unable to get the support of ACT to make it a government bill.

Instead, MP Catherine Wedd has introduced it as a member's bill, while Erica Stanford works on a wider series of regulations.

The B416 group, which has been advocating for a ban, presented the petition, which contained around 45,000 signatures, to Wedd and Stanford.

B416's chief executive Nicole Green said parents, teachers

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