The UK government says under-16s will be banned from social media by spring 2027.
@orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social gives her reaction to today's announcement, and measures it against the evidence we already have about social media restrictions.
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So glad to see this work out! Well done @sakshighai.bsky.social
Excited to see @sakshighai.bsky.social work started when a PhD in the Cambridge team published in Nature!
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One in six Internet-using adolescents in parts of Africa and Asia faced technology-facilitated sexual abuse in 2020ā21. As digital access expands globally, better protection is crucial.
go.nature.com/430fJFd
Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread š§µ
Amy Orben
University of Cambridge
Amy Orben
One in six Internet-using adolescents in parts of Africa and Asia faced technology-facilitated sexual abuse in 2020ā21. As digital access expands globally, better protection is crucial.
šØ Does social media use show established neurocognitive signatures of addiction?
Concerns about social media addiction are widespread, yet whether platforms' design features actually engage the same neurocognitive pathways as established addictions has remained untested.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Do adolescents who report feeling addicted to social media share a single behavioural-emotional profile?
We analysed data from >7,000 UK adolescents and found, strikingly, that **47%** feel addicted to social media.
Nature research paper: Technology mediation in child sexual exploitation and abuse in Africa and Asia
go.nature.com/4fbTNyk
