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EXCLUSIVE: EU could announce social media ban for kids in September

Von der Leyen is expected to use her annual State of the Union speech to unveil plans for EU-wide age restrictions on social media

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[-] acron@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

So your take is that social media is actually good for kids? Any citation for this?

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Without access to that the children view of the world gets limited by what their parent's and their government said. It's just basic logic .

Anyway if you want to talk in papers,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK594763/

This says that social media have both GOOD and BAD effects on kids and teenagers. Both.

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