Overview
- New coverage highlights a turn away from simple phone bans toward platform regulation and graded age access for young users.
- Teens often spend 40 or more hours a week on TikTok, Instagram or WhatsApp, lose track of sleep and breaks, and some still feel alone despite large follower counts.
- Researchers say infinite scroll and constant push alerts are built to hold attention, so they call for legal accountability, real age checks and limits on design tricks.
- School programs spanning about 1,500 events with over 50,000 participants report common risky contacts and easy sharing of personal data, which points to a need for clear rules and open talk at home.
- Nina Kolleck’s new book proposes ad‑free spaces under 13, filtered access from 13 and full access at 18, and it warns the EU has rarely acted decisively against big platforms.