Episode

Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time

Podcast: Hard Fork
Published: Jul 10, 2026
Duration seconds: 4741
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Canonical source: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork
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Summary

“If the net result is that all the teens in Australia are still using social media, even after they’re technically banned from doing it, why are we doing any of this?”