TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)
474 points by cwwc | 471 comments
An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.
#after-babel on Hacker News
4 stories tagged after-babel, newest first.
The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)
684 points by throwup238 | 627 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.
Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play(afterbabel.com)
331 points by paulpauper | 308 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Mariana Brussoni, with a preface by Jon Haidt, arguing that children need risk, fear, and excitement in play and that adult fears harm them.
Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)
339 points by YuukiRey | 468 comments
Jonathan Haidt's After Babel Substack post laying out six propositions for evaluating evidence on whether social media causes mental illness among teens.