Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is at the forefront of the campaign to ban social media for under-16s and end what he ...

Jonathan Haidt's 2024 book made the case that screen time had "rewired" kids' brains. The Amazing Generation is a collab with science journalist Catherine Price and graphic novelist Cynthia Yuan Cheng ...

It seems clear that constant, obsessive thinking about one’s self-presentation is a bad, unhappy way of living. | Opinion ...

I know that I am about to make myself very unpopular with many of my students, but I write to explain my support for an ...

Countries including France and Britain are considering following Australia's lead by banning children and some teenagers from using social media, but experts are still locked in a debate over the ...

Two of the Big Tech giants, Meta and Google, are facing claims in a California state court that their platforms are intentionally designed to be addictive and harmful to children’s ...

When interpersonal challenges grow more intense and public, stress isn’t the only cost. Recent research reveals the hidden ...

The bans reflect a kind of moral turn, one that risks reviving conservative notions that predate the internet. Might we be entering a new Victorian era of the internet, where the digital lives of ...

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas told CNN’s Jake Tapper his country’s world-first social media ban for children under 16 is about protecting them from addictive algorithms, asking: “What’s ...

Last week, the House of Lords passed an amendment backing a ban on social media for under-16s, inspired in part by ...