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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 ๐Ÿฅณ

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate ๐Ÿ˜‰

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

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[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

Tell them it isn't allowed.

๐Ÿคก

Who would have EVER known...

[โ€“] Elting@piefed.social 23 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate ๐Ÿ˜‰

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.

[โ€“] iamericandre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago