Monika Neff Lind (@monikanlind.bsky.social)

Big Tech has become infamous for ‘moving fast and breaking things’. Policymakers rushing to enact youth social media bans risk repeating Big Tech’s mistakes and compounding the problems the bans are trying to solve. We cannot ban our way out of a youth mental health crisis. Editorial by me >>

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‘We cannot ban our way out of a youth mental health crisis’: social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say Bans on teenagers’ social media use are gathering pace worldwide. Their proponents claim that social media bans will improve young people’s mental health, but w https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/05/29/we-cannot-ban-our-way-out-of-a-youth-mental-health-crisis-social-media-bans-for-teenagers-lack-evidence-and-pose-risks-scientists-say