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The Case Against The Phone-Based Childhood

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
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Jon Haidt
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Zach Rausch
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Where the Magic Doesn’t Happen
How technology can interfere with moral formation at school, church, and home
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Andy Crouch
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Smash The Technopoly!
Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, and The Anxious Generation
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Nicholas Smyth
56
Applying The Bradford Hill Criteria To Social Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health
Anna Lembke discusses how the nine criteria used to demonstrate causality in the Surgeon General's 1964 advisory on smoking can improve our thinking…
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Anna Lembke
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Congress Must Pass KOSA By Christmas. The Only Obstacle Seems to be Meta’s Influence
Now that Elon and X have addressed the last free speech concerns, the House leadership should allow it to come up for a vote.
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Jon Haidt
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Zach Rausch
45
Social Media is Disproportionately Hurting Girls
Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters
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Kara Alaimo, PhD
54
Big News: KOSA is Being Marked Up Today While Meta Tries to Show (Too Late) That It Can Self-Regulate
An extraordinary month is unfolding in the international movement to roll back the phone-based childhood.
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Jon Haidt
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Zach Rausch
35
The Worst Argument That Social-Media Companies Use to Defend Themselves
Why are tech leaders so adamant about pushing their creations on other people’s kids, while protecting their own?
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
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Lennon Torres
65
The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments (And Why It Matters), Part 1
A recent meta-analysis contains yet overlooks evidence that multi-week social media reduction experiments consistently improve mental health
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
69
Journalist Sends Kids off on a Smartphone-Free Camping Trip – Unsupervised. Adults Quake. Kids Flourish.
The Sunday Times (UK) just ran a major story illustrating the twin prescriptions in The Anxious Generation
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Lenore Skenazy
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Jon Haidt
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Big News: The Surgeon General Calls for a Warning Label on Social Media
Dr. Murthy is right. The evidence of widespread harm to adolescents is now strong.
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Jon Haidt
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Zach Rausch
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The Youth Rebellion Is Growing
Seven Gen Z Leaders Working to Reduce the Harms Caused by the Phone-Based Childhood
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
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