Is the Internet a Threat to Children's Learning?

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We have lost the public square, we've lost the commons. The only commons is on Twitter where you have the permission because nobody really knows who you are to be the meanest person in the world. You have not developed the habits of people who used to sit out on their front porches and talk to their neighbors after work. What now seem like quaint experiences but the people are actually hungering for them. And I do think that the tech companies are wildly irresponsible - particularly about it in the lives of children.

Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who call themselves the ‘Orb Gang’ in reference to her New Age spiritualism. Can a new generation of American voters take her to the White House? UnHerd's Flo Read spoke to her from the UnHerd studio to find out.

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