Gabriel Attal, France’s former prime minister and a declared candidate in the 2027 presidential election, has made a ban on social media for under-15s a central theme of his campaign. After the Constitutional Council struck down that ban, he published an op-ed calling for the measure to be put to a referendum instead.
To understand what’s really at stake, the starting point is not Paris but Brussels — and a text few French commentators have bothered to reread: the Digital Services Act (DSA), adopted by the European Parliament in 2022.
