The Pie: An Economics Podcast

But the Cool Kids are Still Online: Behind Australia's Failed Social Media Ban

September 15, 2026·43 min
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Last December, Australia banned social media for anyone under 16. Four months later, only one in four 14- and 15-year-olds were complying, a share that has since fallen further. In this episode of The Pie, Leonardo Bursztyn, the Saieh Family Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and co-director of BFI's Political Economics Initiative, discusses why the ban hasn't worked, and what a successful one might entail.

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