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What if social media isn’t hurting kids?

Global Published 16 September 2026, 01:13 · archived 15 Sep 2026

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. It quickly became a central rallying cry of the social media backlash. Haidt […]

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