The evidence that social media causes large-scale harm to adolescents is now very strong, particularly for depression and anxiety symptoms among girls.

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• A growing fraction of social media is AI slop influencers being replied to by bots — an echo of an echo of an echo. FCFrançois Chollet23 Aug 2026social media
• A parental-consent exception defeats a social media age limit, because it drops each family straight back into the trap the law exists to break. JHJon Haidt17 Feb 2026social media
• Advertising is what has degraded the quality of websites and social platforms like Instagram. DRDave Rupert28 Jul 2026social media
• AI design tools are starting at the low end and eating their way up: within ten years even the richest brands will rely heavily on them. JNJakob Nielsen8 Aug 2024social media
• AI is creating user surplus and capital deepening, even if it is not yet showing up in TFP data. BDBrad DeLong5 Oct 2026social media

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