Hi! I'm Niklas Myhr, aka The Social Media Professor

Hello Reader! Australia’s new teen social media ban is a test of how far governments are willing to go in the name of online safety. In an appearance on BBC News live from my Chapman University office, I argued that while the intention to protect young people is laudable, an all‑out ban is “not the right way to go about it” and could even push teens into “worse places than at least potentially highly regulated… tech platforms.” Click image for my blog post on this topic Content moderation...