
As Australia’s ban on social media for children under 16 takes effect, we speak with Jess Butcher, a tech entrepreneur and founder of digital wellbeing foundation ScrollAware. In spite of being opposed to over-regulation, she tells us she supports the Australian ban on account of the scale of the “harms that these platforms are causing” to users and the failure of tech companies to act meaningfully.
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