SYDNEY, Australia — Since Meta whistleblower Frances Haugen aired internal emails in 2021 showing that the tech giant knew of social media's mental health impacts on teenagers, world leaders have agonized over how to curb the technology's addictive pull on young minds.
Even a 2023 recommendation by the United States surgeon general to put health warnings on social media, blaming it for what he called a teenage mental health crisis, could not help lawmakers from Florida to France navigate resistance on grounds of free speech, privacy and the limits of age-checking technology.
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