1 Apr 2025

Feature interview: social media as WMD

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 1 April 2025

The first generation to grow up never knowing a time before smartphones and social media has had enough. As a teenager, Emma Lembke saw her own mental health declining with constant scrolling and hours spent on social media.

LOG OFF is an international youth movement dedicated to rethinking social media's effect on teenagers, and mitigating its potential harm. The group was founded by and is run by teens themselves, with leaders in the group coming from nine different countries. More about the group can be found on its website at: https://www.logoffmovement.org/.

LOG OFF is an international youth movement dedicated to rethinking social media's effect on teenagers, and mitigating its potential harm. The group was founded by and is run by teens themselves, with leaders in the group coming from nine different countries. More about the group can be found on its website at: https://www.logoffmovement.org/. Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington Universi

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