With the ban on access to social media for those under 16, Australia shines a light on the global debate about how to protect children and adolescents from the excesses of an unregulated digital ecosystem.

Amid digital polarization, small communities on social networks reinvent rituals and create minimal emotional bonds that challenge contemporary loneliness.

From Morocco to Peru, Generation Z is transforming platforms such as Discord into their new public square, where outrage is organized, votes are cast, and action is born.

In the digital age, criminal gangs have found TikTok to be a powerful tool for seduction, appealing to emotions and symbols to recruit young people.

Today's politics is no longer explained only with ideologies or programs, but with emotions and digital narratives. Understanding why figures like Bukele and Milei dominate this new language is key to understanding -and disputing- power in the 21st century.

While social networks are presented as territories of freedom and youth authenticity, platforms such as Discord, TikTok and Reddit have been transformed into factories of identity crossed by polarization and hate.