Nope, they just break the law:

https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026-363695

> Conclusions: Despite the intent of the Social Media Minimum Age Act 2024 to delay access to social media platforms and reduce the potential for online harms, little evidence was found of immediate substantive reductions in reported social media use by adolescents under 16 years.

We are training teenagers that laws are stupid and can be circumvented easily and without consequences. As well as continuing to subject them to the harms of social media, only now without any means of monitoring them or holding the social media companies responsible.

The law doesn't make it a crime for children to access social media, but for the companies that provided it to allow that child to access it.