Is a (Social Media) Ban a Plan? We Built a Repository to Find Out.

The question has been ricocheting around European policy corridors for over a year. Australia banned social media for under-16s. France, Austria, Spain, Denmark, and Norway are moving in the same direction. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has declared that "parents, not algorithms, should be raising our children." And in Brussels, the word "ban" has acquired the quality of a policy position in itself: something that sounds decisive even when the evidence for...