The people behind the record.
The Evidence Library is built from documents — but documents have authors. These are the researchers, clinicians, whistleblowers, journalists, filmmakers, and campaigners whose work fills this library, organized by lane and country. Every profile links back to their tagged work.
← BACK TO EVIDENCE LIBRARYJonathan Haidt
Researchers · NYU Stern School of Business
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU Stern whose book "The Anxious Generation" (2024) became a publishing phenomenon, spending more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It popularized four norms for parents and schools: no smartphone before high school, no social media before 16, phone-free schools, and more unsupervised free play. He earlier co-wrote "The Coddling of the American Mind" (2018) and continues the argument on his After Babel Substack. Through anxiousgeneration.com, he has organized a wide network of parents and schools around reducing children's phone-based childhoods.
Jonathan Haidt
Researchers · NYU Stern School of Business
The social psychologist who turned "phone-based childhood" into the defining frame for the youth mental-health debate.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Jean Twenge
Researchers · San Diego State University
The SDSU psychologist who documented the sudden collapse in teen mental health beginning around 2012.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Kaitlyn Regehr
Researchers · University College London
UCL digital-humanities researcher whose 2024 algorithm-amplification report reached roughly 300 media outlets.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Manfred Spitzer
Researchers · University of Ulm
Ulm psychiatrist-neuroscientist who coined the provocative term "digital dementia" in 2012.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Michel Desmurget
Researchers · INSERM
INSERM neuroscience research director whose "Screen Damage" became a bestseller questioning heavy screen use in children.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Anna Lembke
Clinicians & Public Health · Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford addiction psychiatry chief who called the smartphone "a modern-day hypodermic needle."
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Jenny Radesky
Clinicians & Public Health · University of Michigan Medical School
U-Michigan pediatrician who wrote the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidance on media and young minds.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Lee Hae-kook
Clinicians & Public Health · Catholic University of Korea
Korean psychiatrist whose iCURE cohort research helped inform WHO's recognition of gaming disorder.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Manoj Kumar Sharma
Clinicians & Public Health · NIMHANS Bengaluru
Runs India's first tech de-addiction clinic and a national digital-detox helpline out of NIMHANS Bengaluru.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Michael Carr-Gregg
Clinicians & Public Health · Independent practice
Adolescent psychologist who led the review behind New South Wales's school phone ban.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Michael Rich
Clinicians & Public Health · Boston Children's Hospital
"The Mediatrician," who directs Boston Children's Hospital's Digital Wellness Lab and its screen-use clinic.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Nicholas Kardaras
Clinicians & Public Health · Omega Recovery
Addiction psychologist whose "Glow Kids" warned parents about compulsive screen use in children.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Susumu Higuchi
Clinicians & Public Health · Kurihama Medical & Addiction Center
Director of Japan's first internet-addiction treatment facility, open since 2011.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Victoria Dunckley
Clinicians & Public Health · Independent practice
Child psychiatrist behind "Electronic Screen Syndrome" and the clinical screen fast.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Vivek Murthy
Clinicians & Public Health · Office of the U.S. Surgeon General (former)
Former U.S. Surgeon General who issued the 2023 advisory warning on social media and youth mental health.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Arturo Béjar
Whistleblowers & Insiders · Meta
Former Meta engineering director whose internal survey measured how often teens faced unwanted sexual advances on Instagram — and who says the company didn't act on it.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Cayce Savage
Whistleblowers & Insiders · Meta
Former Meta VR researcher who joined Jason Sattizahn in testifying that the company shelved child-safety research on its headsets.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Frances Haugen
Whistleblowers & Insiders · Meta (formerly Facebook)
The Facebook product manager who leaked internal research showing the company knew Instagram harmed teen mental health.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Jason Sattizahn
Whistleblowers & Insiders · Meta
Former Meta VR researcher who told the Senate the company buried its own child-safety findings on virtual-reality headsets.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Sarah Wynn-Williams
Whistleblowers & Insiders · Facebook (Meta)
Former Facebook policy director whose memoir and Senate testimony detailed how ad targeting could reach teenagers based on their emotional state.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Tim Kendall
Whistleblowers & Insiders · Facebook (formerly)
Facebook's former monetization chief who told Congress the platforms were engineered to be as addictive as cigarettes.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Tristan Harris
Whistleblowers & Insiders · Center for Humane Technology
Former Google design ethicist who became one of the most visible voices arguing tech should be built for humane use, not compulsion.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Adam Alter
Authors & Journalists · Irresistible (book)
Author of Irresistible, part of the wider tech-criticism reading list behind this library's case against unchecked platform design.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Cal Newport
Authors & Journalists · Digital Minimalism (book)
Author of Digital Minimalism, part of the wider tech-criticism reading list behind this library's case against unchecked platform design.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Jaron Lanier
Authors & Journalists
Part of the wider tech-criticism reading list this library draws on for broader context on technology's effects.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Jeff Horwitz
Authors & Journalists · The Wall Street Journal (formerly)
Investigative reporter behind the Facebook Files and a 2025 Meta AI-chatbot exposé that helped force internal research on teen harm into public view.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Johann Hari
Authors & Journalists · Stolen Focus (book)
Journalist whose book Stolen Focus ties the collapse of children's unsupervised play to the same engineered attention crisis driving compulsive screen use.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Max Fisher
Authors & Journalists · The Chaos Machine (book)
Author of The Chaos Machine, part of the wider tech-criticism reading list behind this library's case against unchecked platform design.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Nicholas Carr
Authors & Journalists · The Shallows (book)
Author of The Shallows, part of the wider tech-criticism reading list behind this library's case against unchecked platform design.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Roger McNamee
Authors & Journalists · Zucked (book)
Author of Zucked, part of the wider tech-criticism reading list behind this library's case against unchecked platform design.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Sherry Turkle
Authors & Journalists
Part of the wider tech-criticism reading list this library draws on for broader context on technology's effects.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Delaney Ruston
Filmmakers · Screenagers
Physician-filmmaker behind Screenagers, the documentary series screened for millions of families and students worldwide to spark conversation about kids and screens.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Jeff Orlowski-Yang
Filmmakers · The Social Dilemma (Netflix, 2020)
Director of The Social Dilemma, the Netflix documentary that carried tech-insider warnings about algorithmic design to a mass audience.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Lauren Greenfield
Filmmakers · Social Studies (FX/Hulu, 2024)
Director of Social Studies, an unflinching look at a full school year lived through Los Angeles teenagers' own phones and social feeds.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Matthew O'Neill
Filmmakers · Can't Look Away (2025)
Co-director of Can't Look Away, following families' legal fight against social-media platforms over harm to their children.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Perri Peltz
Filmmakers · Can't Look Away (2025)
Co-director of Can't Look Away, bringing the families suing social-media platforms over harm to their children onto the screen.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Beeban Kidron
Parent Advocates · 5Rights Foundation
Built the 5Rights Foundation and drafted the UK's Age-Appropriate Design Code, now echoed by regulators abroad.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Brooke Shannon
Parent Advocates · Wait Until 8th
Founded the pledge that got 100,000+ families to delay smartphones until eighth grade.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Clare Fernyhough
Parent Advocates · Smartphone Free Childhood
Co-founded Smartphone Free Childhood alongside Daisy Greenwell, now active in chapters across 27+ countries.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Daisy Greenwell
Parent Advocates · Smartphone Free Childhood
Co-founded Smartphone Free Childhood, the UK parent movement that grew to tens of thousands of members in weeks.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Elisabet García Permanyer
Parent Advocates · Adolescencia Libre de Móviles
Sparked Spain's "no smartphone until 16" family pact movement, now joined by more than 30,000 families.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Jim Steyer
Parent Advocates · Common Sense Media
Founded Common Sense Media in 2003, now one of the most-cited ratings and advocacy organizations for kids' media.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Josh Golin
Parent Advocates · Fairplay
Leads Fairplay and its Screen Time Action Network, a leading campaign organization behind the push for the Kids Online Safety Act.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Julie Scelfo
Parent Advocates · Mothers Against Media Addiction
Founded Mothers Against Media Addiction, a parent movement now organized in roughly 50 chapters across 23 states.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Esther Ghey
Bereaved-Parent Campaigners · Phone-Free Education
Leads the Phone-Free Education campaign and petitioned the Prime Minister for a schools smartphone ban.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Ian Russell
Bereaved-Parent Campaigners · Molly Rose Foundation
Founded the Molly Rose Foundation and helped shape the UK's Online Safety Act.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Kristin Bride
Bereaved-Parent Campaigners
Senate testimony and state-level advocacy that helped drive KOSA and Oregon's Carson's Law.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Maurine Molak
Bereaved-Parent Campaigners · David's Legacy Foundation
Founded David's Legacy Foundation and helped pass Texas's David's Law, one of the first state anti-cyberbullying statutes.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Wayne Holdsworth
Bereaved-Parent Campaigners · SmackTalk
Founded SmackTalk and publicly backed Australia's under-16 social-media law.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Emma Lembke
Youth Leaders · LOG OFF
Founded a teen-led movement against compulsive social media use, then carried the case to the U.S. Senate.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Zamaan Qureshi
Youth Leaders · Design It For Us
Co-chairs the youth coalition behind state design-code campaigns aimed at making platforms safer by default.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Amine Benyamina
Government & Regulators · Enfants et écrans commission
Co-chaired the French commission that recommended no smartphone before age 13 — one of Europe's most detailed screen-policy reports.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Jakob Forssmed
Government & Regulators · Swedish Public Health Agency
Backed Sweden's 2024 national screen-time guidance, framing children's health as the cost of tech companies' profits.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Julie Inman Grant
Government & Regulators · eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
Australia's eSafety Commissioner, charged with enforcing the world's first nationwide under-16 social media law.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Servane Mouton
Government & Regulators · Enfants et écrans commission
Co-chaired France's national children-and-screens commission, then wrote a follow-up book calling the situation a public-health disaster.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Dr. Alok Kanojia ("Dr. K")
Creators & Channels · HealthyGamerGG
Harvard-trained psychiatrist who built HealthyGamerGG into a leading channel on gaming and tech habits.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Michael "Wippa" Wipfli
Creators & Channels · 36 Months
Co-fronted the 36 Months campaign, whose 147,000-signature petition is credited in Australia's under-16 social media law.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Modern Wisdom
Creators & Channels · Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson's Modern Wisdom carried a two-part Haidt interview on social media's hidden dangers to a mainstream YouTube audience.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →Rob Galluzzo
Creators & Channels · 36 Months
Co-fronted the 36 Months campaign alongside Michael "Wippa" Wipfli, driving a petition credited in Australia's under-16 law.
0 WORKS IN LIBRARY →The Diary of a CEO
Creators & Channels · The Diary of a CEO
Carried Jonathan Haidt's "Brain Rot Emergency" episode to a mainstream business-and-culture audience.
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