Just because you have not been radicalised, it doesn’t mean you are not being manipulated.

Ambient pessimism is so pervasive that our society’s problems can seem intractable, but this fatalism can become a self-fulfilling prophecy that puts democracy itself at risk.

We need a moratorium on children’s use of social media. On 2 September 2021, French children born in 2010 started secondary school (or “...