Student unrest, media bans France and Belgium report

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Mehdi Ebrahimi's Paris package reports recent French and Belgian student unrest over teachers, resources, inequality and costs, and a Liège ban on gatherings of more than three people. It relays officials' suggestions that young people were misled and talk of limiting Instagram/TikTok access. Quoted media discussion cites 580 million TikTok views and intelligence-service assessments that AI-enhanced social networks accelerate mobilization. The report says an unnamed French mayor proposed cutting off social media for under-18s during the crisis and that France asked the EU to consider teenage access restrictions. These are reported restrictions, proposals and attributed assessments; no Belgian internet block, French national under-18 ban or EU adoption is established. Exact dates of the reused unrest footage are unspecified.

IRINN's Paris report says an unnamed French mayor proposed cutting off social-media access for under-18s during the student-protest crisis. It places the proposal against debate about TikTok reach and intelligence-service claims that AI-enhanced networks accelerate mobilization. The proposal is not an enacted national or EU ban, and the mayor's identity and statement date remain unknown.