What if social media isn’t hurting kids?
Will anyone listen?A new book says modern schooling, not phones, are behind youth mental health declines. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform.Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation. The book posits that the rise of social media and smartphone use is largely to blame for the prominent decline in teen mental health since 2010.
- ▪Will anyone listen?A new book says modern schooling, not phones, are behind youth mental health declines.
- ▪She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform.Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation.
- ▪The book posits that the rise of social media and smartphone use is largely to blame for the prominent decline in teen mental health since 2010.
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