Australia’s grand social-media experiment
Australia’s grand social-media experiment
- December 18, 2025
- Candice Odgers, psychology and CPIP affiliate, The Atlantic, Dec. 18
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Many countries, including the United States, are considering age-gating social media in similar ways. … 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.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/australia-social-media-ban-teens/685306/.
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