Social media ban for under-16s in the UK: Cambridge expert reaction • University of Cambridge (opens in new tab)

“Whether this is a good or bad policy decision depends on what we consider to be the ultimate goal of this ban,” said Prof Amy Orben of Cambridge’s MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, who was last month appointed to a Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) advisory panel on children's online wellbeing. “On the one hand, this ban will not solve our collective concerns about the increasingly digital childhoods experienced in the UK today. We know from the Australian ban tha...