
Newser - 10 hours 41 min ago
Maybe it's not the glowing rectangles that broke childhood, but the school day. Writing for the Atlantic , Kaitlyn Tiffany digs into psychologist Peter Gray's upcoming book, Restoring Childhood , which takes direct aim at Jonathan Haidt's hugely influential The Anxious Generation , published in 2024. Haidt blames smartphones and social media for...

The Guardian - 11 hours 45 min ago
When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that the social media giants had created addiction machines' that harmed mental health. How did they pull it off? When Mark Zuckerberg walked into a Los Angeles courtroom on 18 February flanked by an entourage bedecked in Meta Ray-Bans, some people laughed. If this was an attempt at product placement...