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The Case Against The Phone-Based Childhood

Mountains of Evidence
Two new projects catalogue research on social media’s many harms to adolescents. Some of the strongest evidence comes from Meta.
 • Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch
How Tech Companies Rig Parental Guilt
Platforms profit from children’s attention while parents absorb the blame
 • Daniel Frost, Sarah Coyne, and Jane Shawcroft
Meta’s Child Sex-Trafficking Problem
A newly unsealed court filing shows the tech giant connected children to predators on a scale much larger than previously understood.
 • Nathan Witkin
The Devil’s Plan to Ruin the Next Generation
I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling — and all too familiar.
 • Jon Haidt
Don’t Give Your Child Any AI Companions
Some dangers are already clear; others won’t be known for many years
 • Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch
Does Social Media Use at One Time Predict Teen Depression at a Later Time?
Reviewing longitudinal evidence
 • Alec McClean and Jakey Lebwohl
Reclaiming Conversation in the Age of AI
Sherry Turkle on AI, empathy, and the fight for human connection
 • Sherry Turkle
Artificial Intimacy: The Next Giant Social Experiment on Young Minds
How emotionally intelligent chatbots could trigger a new mental health crisis
 • Kristina Lerman and David Duc Chu
First We Gave AI Our Tasks. Now We’re Giving It Our Hearts.
What happens when we outsource our children’s emotional lives to chatbots?
 • Mandy McLean
Smartphone Gambling is a Disaster
We aren’t meant to have a casino in our pockets
 • Jonathan D. Cohen and Isaac Rose-Berman
It’s Not Just a Game Anymore
How new monetization models changed gaming, and what parents need to know
 • Bennett Sippel and Zach Rausch
The Mass Trauma of Porn
What have we done?
 • Freya India
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