After Babel

Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug.

How Sweden is rolling back the phone-based childhood

Nov 10 • 

Linda Åkeson McGurk

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October 2025

The UK Is Doing the Hard Work of Protecting Children Online

Commentary and advice from Beeban Kidron, who helped start it all

Oct 28 • 

Baroness Beeban Kidron

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Does Social Media Use at One Time Predict Teen Depression at a Later Time?

Reviewing longitudinal evidence

Oct 6 • 

Alec McClean

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Jakey Lebwohl

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TIME TO REFUSE

NYC, Join the Mass Deletion: October 10, 2025

Oct 5 • 

Freya India

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September 2025

We Are The Slop

Your life is my background noise

Sep 29 • 

Freya India

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Free Play and Mental Health: What We Know, What We Don’t

Introducing the Play Collaborative Review Doc

Sep 22 • 

YeJin Park Roberts

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Jon Haidt

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Australia’s Social Media Age Limit Policy Delays Account Creation, Not Access to Content

The policy has been widely mischaracterized

Sep 8 • 

Ravi Iyer

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Jon Haidt

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Basic Phones: A Guide for Parents

An excerpt from Jean Twenge’s new book: 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World

Sep 2 • 

Jean M. Twenge

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August 2025

Reclaiming Conversation in the Age of AI

Sherry Turkle on AI, empathy, and the fight for human connection

Aug 26 • 

Sherry Turkle

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Meta’s AI Companion Policy Is Outrageous

They will only truly change it when the law requires them to do so

Aug 22 • 

Casey Mock

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We Are Rushing Into the Same Mistakes We Made With Social Media

Let’s press pause on AI chatbots for kids

Aug 20 • 

Gaia Bernstein

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Artificial Intimacy: The Next Giant Social Experiment on Young Minds

How emotionally intelligent chatbots could trigger a new mental health crisis

Aug 14 • 

Kristina Lerman

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David Duc Chu

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