{
  "id": 7627798,
  "title": "What if social media isn’t hurting kids?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/what-if-social-media-isnt-hurting-kids",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-15T20:13:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/995704/peter-gray-restoring-childhood-jonathan-haidt"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation. The book posits that the rise of social media and smartphone use is largely to blame for the prominent decline in teen mental health since 2010. It quickly became a central rallying cry of the social media backlash. Haidt […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}