From: The Atlantic
Australia’s Grand Social-Media Experiment
December 18, 2025
To celebrate the start of a nationwide ban on social media for kids under the age of 16, the Australian government lit the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the slogan Let Them Be Kids.
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Candice Odgers, a psychology professor at UC Irvine, also mentioned country-to-country comparisons as a problem. Odgers has studied several of the big questions around kids and social media, and has often challenged the idea that there is a scientific basis for the current level of concern. “Kids in Norway differ from kids in Australia for all kinds of reasons,” she told me. “I hope that’s not the pathway people go, but I fear it will be.”
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