After Babel

Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids What looked politically impossible just months ago has become a global movement to restrict kids’ access to social media. Here’s how it happened.

Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids • What looked politically impossible just months ago has become a global movement to restrict kids’ access to social media. Here’s how it happened.

How to Evaluate Phone Policies in Schools The Toolkit for Assessing Phones in Schools Release, Part 2

How to Evaluate Phone Policies in Schools • The Toolkit for Assessing Phones in Schools Release, Part 2

You Have To Be Human I realize now that I want to be real

You Have To Be Human • I realize now that I want to be real

Scrolling Alone A brief history of the trade-off between convenience and connection in America

Scrolling Alone • A brief history of the trade-off between convenience and connection in America

How Meta’s Lawyers Perfected the Playbook of Deceit From Big Tobacco to Menlo Park — and the collapse of legal ethics

How Meta’s Lawyers Perfected the Playbook of Deceit • From Big Tobacco to Menlo Park — and the collapse of legal ethics

Invitation to a Zoom Call With Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch, for Paid Subscribers

Invitation to a Zoom Call With Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch, for Paid Subscribers

Mountains of Evidence Two new projects catalogue research on social media’s many harms to adolescents. Some of the strongest evidence comes from Meta.

Mountains of Evidence • Two new projects catalogue research on social media’s many harms to adolescents. Some of the strongest evidence comes from Meta.

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

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

A Year of Real Progress for Kids Highlights from our movement, our research, and our substack

A Year of Real Progress for Kids • Highlights from our movement, our research, and our substack

The Amazing Generation is the Book Parents Have Been Asking For Our new guide for kids ages 9–12 comes out Dec. 30.

The Amazing Generation is the Book Parents Have Been Asking For • Our new guide for kids ages 9–12 comes out Dec. 30.

Live with Katie Couric A recording from Jon Haidt and Katie Couric's live video

Live with Katie Couric • A recording from Jon Haidt and Katie Couric's live video

How Tech Companies Rig Parental Guilt Platforms profit from children’s attention while parents absorb the blame

How Tech Companies Rig Parental Guilt • Platforms profit from children’s attention while parents absorb the blame

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.

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.

Australia’s New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood First Why raising the minimum age to 16 is a breakthrough for families and child safety

Australia’s New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood First • Why raising the minimum age to 16 is a breakthrough for families and child safety

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

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

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.

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.

Don’t Give Your Child Any AI Companions Some dangers are already clear; others won’t be known for many years.

Don’t Give Your Child Any AI Companions • Some dangers are already clear; others won’t be known for many years.

Growing up Online Nearly Killed Me A dual narrative of mother and daughter about a new school, new phone, and online grooming

Growing up Online Nearly Killed Me • A dual narrative of mother and daughter about a new school, new phone, and online grooming

Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug. How Sweden is rolling back the phone-based childhood

Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug. • How Sweden is rolling back the phone-based childhood

The UK Is Doing the Hard Work of Protecting Children Online Commentary and advice from Beeban Kidron, who helped start it all

The UK Is Doing the Hard Work of Protecting Children Online • Commentary and advice from Beeban Kidron, who helped start it all

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

Does Social Media Use at One Time Predict Teen Depression at a Later Time? • Reviewing longitudinal evidence

TIME TO REFUSE NYC, Join the Mass Deletion: October 10, 2025

TIME TO REFUSE • NYC, Join the Mass Deletion: October 10, 2025

We Are The Slop Your life is my background noise

We Are The Slop • Your life is my background noise

Australia’s Social Media Age Limit Policy Delays Account Creation, Not Access to Content The policy has been widely mischaracterized

Australia’s Social Media Age Limit Policy Delays Account Creation, Not Access to Content • The policy has been widely mischaracterized

Basic Phones: A Guide for Parents An Excerpt From Jean Twenge’s New Book: 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World

Basic Phones: A Guide for Parents • An Excerpt From Jean Twenge’s New Book: 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World

Reclaiming Conversation in the Age of AI Sherry Turkle on AI, empathy, and the fight for human connection

Reclaiming Conversation in the Age of AI • Sherry Turkle on AI, empathy, and the fight for human connection

Meta’s AI Companion Policy Is Outrageous They will only truly change it when the law requires them to do so

Meta’s AI Companion Policy Is Outrageous • They will only truly change it when the law requires them to do so

Artificial Intimacy: The Next Giant Social Experiment on Young Minds How emotionally intelligent chatbots could trigger a new mental health crisis

Artificial Intimacy: The Next Giant Social Experiment on Young Minds • How emotionally intelligent chatbots could trigger a new mental health crisis

How Is Your New School Phone Policy Working? Introducing the TAPS: Toolkit for Assessing Phones in Schools

How Is Your New School Phone Policy Working? • Introducing the TAPS: Toolkit for Assessing Phones in Schools

What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.

What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones • Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.