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The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)(afterbabel.com)
448 points by simonebrunozzi | 708 comments
After Babel post by Zach Rausch and Jon Haidt arguing that the early-2010s teen mental illness rise occurred simultaneously across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.
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97 points by sagacity | 93 comments
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474 points by cwwc | 471 comments
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321 points by cocacola1 | 496 comments
A New Yorker column by Jay Caspian Kang arguing the case for banning children from social media and examining proposed ways to protect kids.
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338 points by trevin | 291 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Jon Haidt and Peter Gray arguing that the decline of unsupervised free play is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis.