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If you really want kids to spend less time online, make space for them in the real world

Tech firms can do more, but it’s the government’s job to ensure children have safe places to play – and it’s not doing it, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Parents Don't Want Schools to Confiscate Kids' Phones

A new survey highlights how fear-based parenting drives phone-based childhoods.

Reason

Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles

Jonathan Haidt’s clever, insufficient case against smartphones.

Reason

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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt review: The awful power of smartphones on children

Forget horror; this is one of the most terrifying books I have read. We all know our phones aren’t great for us, but Jonathan Haidt sets out their true cost in such excruciating detail you will want to look away instead of a mind-numbing scroll through Instagram.

Evening Standard

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – a pocket full of poison

An urgent and persuasive warning about the toll of ‘phone-based childhoods’

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best books about democracy in crisis

From mega-conspiracies to evolutionary biology, these books will help you dissect why political systems go awry

The Guardian - UK

Nonfiction to look out for in 2024

From Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life to Sathnam Sanghera’s thoughts on imperialism via the story of the Tory party’s decline, here are the big hitters coming your way next year

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Helicopter Parenting Hurts Your Kids' Mental Health

Social media overuse among teens may be a symptom, not the cause, of their distress.

Reason

Jo Nesbø: ‘Tom Sawyer was my first murder mystery’

The Norwegian crime writer talks about his early influences, changing tastes and the age-limit for enjoying Hemingway

The Guardian - UK

Why Are So Many Younger Americans OK With Big Brother Monitoring Their Homes?

Children raised in an atmosphere of fear become adults who prioritize security over liberty.

Reason

Hunter Biden, Second Amendment Warrior?

Plus: Flaws in studies linking teen social media use to depression, debt ceiling deal passes Senate, and more...

Reason

Not Every Study on Teen Depression and Social Media Is Bad. Only Most of Them.

The few good studies on teen depression and social media undercut attempts to establish causal connections between the two.

Reason

Don’t chalk up all American political discord to social media

When has the nation not been riven by disinformation?

Chicago Sun-Times

Why reading books is good for society, wellbeing and your career

TikTok allows video up to 10 minutes, but says surveys show almost half its users are stressed by anything longer than a minute. An Instagram video can be up to 90 seconds, but experts reckon the ideal time to maximise engagement is less than 15 seconds. Twitter doubled the length…

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Reason

Trump Indictment Could Be the Jolt His Flailing 2024 Campaign Needs

Plus: Evidence that social media causes teen health problems "isn't convincing," more states ban gender transition treatments for minors, and more...

Reason

The Statistically Flawed Evidence That Social Media Is Causing the Teen Mental Health Crisis

Jonathan Haidt's integrity and transparency are admirable, but the studies he's relying on aren't strong enough to support his conclusions.

Financial Times

The teen mental health crisis: a reckoning for Big Tech

A growing body of evidence links a rise in depression in children to social media use. Will it lead to more regulation?

Reason

Social Media Making Kids Depressed? Send Them Outside To Play

When society criminalizes outdoor independence, it makes smart phone addiction more likely.

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Mandated Diversity Statement Drives Jonathan Haidt To Quit Academic Society

Prominent social psychologist and NYU professor calls the requirement “explicitly ideological.”

Chicago Sun-Times

The internet is a misinformation superhighway

Politically speaking, the internet is pretty much a disaster. One writer suspects that unhinged, unregulated social media are partly responsible for a retreat from democratic values — more tribalism, more violent rhetoric and less respect for law — pretty much around the world.

Reason

A California Bill Wants To Punish Social Media Companies for 'Addicting' Children

The bill makes little note of parents' ability to control their own children's social media access.

Axios

Structural stupidity: How historians will view social media's destruction of democracy

It's going to get much worse, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns.

Reason

Regulate Social Media? Jonathan Haidt Debates Robby Soave

Professor Jonathan Haidt of NYU and Reason's Robby Soave debate the harms of social media and what the government should do about it.

Reason

Does the Government Need To Fix Social Media? A Soho Forum Debate

Professor Jonathan Haidt of NYU debates Reason's Robby Soave.

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