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Social Media and the Myth of the Big Tobacco Moment

✇NYT > Top Stories
By: David Streitfeld
Smoking used to be everywhere, the way Facebook, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and Instagram are now. Society decided to break the habit, but it took a long time.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Meta will pay up to $17.1 billion over a decade and make changes to its social media properties to make them less compulsive for young people.
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A Movement to Restrict Social Media for Children Has Taken Hold Globally

✇NYT > Top Stories
By: Ephrat Livni
Governments around the world have passed or proposed a range of bans or restrictions on young teens using addictive social media platforms.

© Jeremy Piper/Reuters

A 15-year-old using social media apps in Australia in July, more than half a year after the country had implemented a ban on children under 16 using many platforms.
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