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 ๐ฅณ
Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate ๐
Source: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf
Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate ๐
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.