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The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?

Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the health of their adult caregivers

The Guardian - UK

Quote of the day by MacKenzie Scott: "I would much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid"

Handing a four-year-old a real kitchen knife sounds like the setup to a parenting disaster, not a philosophy. Yet that is exactly what MacKenzie Scott and her then-husband Jeff Bezos did with their own children, and by the time those kids were seven or eight, power tools had entered the…

The Times of India

‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?

Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

The Guardian - US

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Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox

Groups claim games platform’s design and business model conflict with children’s developmental needs

The Guardian - UK

A record number of 18-year-olds are set to graduate into an economy designed against them

It's the commencement season that Gen Z fought back as America hits peak 18 and peak data center at the same time.

Fortune

NYU students want to cancel commencement speaker who ripped cancel culture: ‘Parting gift of disrespect’

Professor Jonathan Haidt is accused of ‘disturbing rhetoric around antiracism, social justice, and diversity, equity and inclusion’

The Independent UK

Five Things to Know About Largest Cell Phone Ban Study

A large study on school cell phone bans has found mixed results

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Most Young Australians Successfully Evade the Country's Social Media Ban

The anxious generation is proving more tech savvy than regulators.

Reason

Three months into Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s, has it been a success?

Getting platforms to comply with the restrictions was no small feat. But it’s too early to measure the real-world mental health outcomes

The Guardian - AU

Bill Maher Reacts to US President Trump’s EPA Rollback Effort and Warns of Climate Consequences

Bill Maher ripped Trump’s EPA for gutting carbon rules, calling it the “biggest dck move in history” and warning about climate consequences.

The Fashion Central

A 'Goldilocks' Effect for Online Teens? Moderate Social Media Users Fare Better Than Abstainers or Heavy Users

“Both abstinence and excessive use can be problematic,” researchers suggest.

Reason

We 'want to encourage other people in our generation to be the types of people who do not even want to have an AI friend': Appstinence founder on the fight to help people step back from tech and reconnect with real life

Appstinence Founder Gabriela Nguyen on how the organization is helping people disconnect from addictive apps, platforms, and technologies, and why AI is the fight's next front.

TechRadar

Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s

Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia

The Guardian - UK

The great cellphone purge in schools — something both sides of the aisle can agree on

IN FOCUS: Educators and state legislators across the nation are pushing to banish smartphones from the classroom as evidence mounts that compulsive tech use is harming young people, reports Io Dodds

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Marie Claire

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Have Spoken Out About Being ‘Present’ for Their Children

Evening Standard

Harry and Meghan ‘proud’ of work looking at dangers of social media for children

The Duke of Sussex has long campaigned to raise awareness about the harms of social media.

Reason

Study: Short-Form Video Isn't Rotting Your Brain

A recent meta-analysis concerning short-form video, mental health, and attention spawned a lot of tech panic. Did critics even read the study?

Fortune

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonders why AI companies don't have to 'follow any laws'

Gordon-Levitt said that without establishing the principle that a person’s digital work belongs to them, the industry is heading down a “pretty dystopian road.”

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International Business Times UK

Australia 'Bans Social Media for Teens Under 16': A World First Sparks Global Shock

Australia has announced plans to bar under-16s from using social media platforms, a world-first move that has triggered global shock. The proposal follows mounting concern about online harm and child safety.

Reason

Survey: 91 Percent of College Students Think 'Words Can Be Violence.' That Could Feed Real Violence.

But there's a silver lining—sort of.

The Guardian - AU

A US psychologist prescribed a social media ban for kids. How did Australia become the test subject?

From nascent policy idea in one state to passing federal parliament in just days, it has been a whirlwind journey for the world-first legislation that will take effect from 10 December

Fortune

Australia wants to end the era of kids on social media with international ban hailed as ‘first domino’ in global movement

If Meta, Google, and others can’t figure out how to block accounts of users under 16 years old, they’ll be fined $33 million per breach.

Inverse

Friendslop Is The Biggest Gaming Trend in 2025 — And It’s Just Getting Started

2025 is the year gaming embraced friendslop. From new games like R.E.P.O and Peak to the friendslop-ification of Fortnite & GTA, it's just getting started.

International Business Times UK

Disney Star Calum Worthy Underfire For 'Sick' AI App That Creates Avatars of the Departed

Calum Worthy promotes 2wai's video chat app on X, but it garnered harsh response from the users who disapproved of the AI-generated avatar of the deceased.

Fortune

Gen Z’s brains are ‘growing around their phones’ the way a tree warps around a tombstone, ‘Anxious Generation’ author warns

Speaking at a Dartmouth symposium on mental health, NYU professor Jonathan Haidt discussed his research on “the great rewiring.”

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