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Why Parental Consent Policies for Social Media Do Not Help Families
This sensible-sounding idea fails parents by putting them back into a collective action trap. Platforms often propose it because they know it won’t…
 • Jon Haidt, Marisa Shea, Zach Rausch, and Ravi Iyer
Australia’s Social Media Policy Is Succeeding
Here’s what the critics are missing.
 • Ravi Iyer, Jon Haidt, and Zach Rausch
How Indonesia is Protecting 80 Million Children from Online Harm
Their first-of-its-kind regulation cracks down on harmful design.
 • Anindito Aditomo, Najelaa Shihab, Nisa Felicia, and Yeremia Dwi Hendryanto
Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties
From Big Tobacco to Menlo Park — and the collapse of legal ethics
 • Casey Mock
Why Every Country Should Set 16 (or Higher) as the Minimum Age for Social Media Accounts
Four features of strong age-limit policies for countries ready to follow Australia’s brave lead
 • Jon Haidt and Ravi Iyer
Strong Public Support To Restrict Social Media for Children in Germany
A huge majority of adults favors a minimum age for social media – and even adolescents themselves see harm from social media.
 • Ludger Woessmann, Katharina Wedel, Franziska Pfaehler, and Vera Freundl
Australia’s New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood First
Why raising the minimum age to 16 is a breakthrough for families and child safety
 • Jon Haidt
Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug.
How Sweden is rolling back the phone-based childhood
 • Linda Åkeson McGurk
The UK Is Doing the Hard Work of Protecting Children Online
Commentary and advice from Beeban Kidron, who helped start it all
 • Baroness Beeban Kidron
Australia’s Social Media Age Limit Policy Delays Account Creation, Not Access to Content
The policy has been widely mischaracterized
 • Ravi Iyer and Jon Haidt
Meta’s AI Companion Policy Is Outrageous
They will only truly change it when the law requires them to do so
 • Casey Mock
We Are Rushing Into the Same Mistakes We Made With Social Media
Let’s press pause on AI chatbots for kids
 • Gaia Bernstein
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