Digital Screen Use by Infants and Toddlers Risks Long-Term Health and Education Outcomes

Is Making Platforms Responsible for Banning Australian Children’s Use a Straw Man?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Australian federal government is forging ahead with its “world-leading” legislation aimed at protecting Australian under-16s from social media harms. Last week, it was announced that YouTube—previously the beneficiary of a carve-out that excluded it from earlier versions of the legislation—will now be included in measures to “protect young Australians at a critical stage of their development, giving them three m…

Digital screen use by infants and toddlers risks long-term health and education outcomes

Greater public health awareness of the harms of digital screen use is needed to reclaim parents as their first and irreplaceable teacher.