If you want brain rot, read the Financial Review

He commented: “Social media ban can cure the brain rot of Generation Z” Financial Review anonymous editorial today, he argues that the government’s foolish and privacy-invasive social media ban on children will address the “corrosive negative effects that social media has had on entire generations, especially young people.”

hawking discredited claims Jonathan Haidt AFR He blames “anxiety, depression and self-harm among young people” on social media, which “effectively eats into the time young people spend developing basic skills”, prevents children from going outside and playing football around, and “gives tech giants free rein to exploit the impressionable nature of young people”.