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madeindex@lemmy.world Joined: 2026-03-31

Screenshot of graphic from this study of Australia's social media ban: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf Percent of banned 14-15-year olds (b) Compliance rate, April versus June 2026 Usage rate: 64% April, 92% June Implied compliance: 27% April, 6% June Notes: Figure 5 reports self-reported past-7-day use of any banned platform.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49761199

If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :)

Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in Australia still use it 🥳

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

Source:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf

queermunist@lemmy.ml Joined: 2023-07-10

I know a great way to get kids to stop doing something!

Tell them it isn't allowed.

🤡

eldavi@lemmy.ml Joined: 2023-07-18

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

i wish they had spent some time looking at the effectiveness of both combined instead of just this one little blurb:

lying about age on verification prompts (57%),

that's roughly the same percentage of americans who can see a genocide live streamed to the palm of their hands every day and still won't accept that it's a genocide.

Elting@piefed.social Joined: 2025-11-18

well, obviously it just wasn't banned hard enough. Give them even more access to identifying information and they can fix this.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-29

Who would have EVER known...

iamericandre@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-29

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