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

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Podcast: [Hard Fork](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hard-fork)
Published: 2026-07-10T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork
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“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?”

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