At Restaurants, Phones Are Becoming the New Cigarettes
📍 Aftermath
{ "epilogue": "A growing number of restaurants began discouraging and even banning smartphones at the table, comparing them to cigarettes. Coverage highlighted why these phone-free dining policies were being adopted and how restaurants were going phone-free.
The story quieted without a definitive conclusion in the coverage." }
Epilogue added 26d ago, after coverage quieted.
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At Restaurants, Phones Are Becoming the New Cigarettes WSJ · 54d ago broke it first
The story so far
- Velocity & Diffusion: Coverage escalated across 6 distinct news outlets with 6 published articles, achieving a live velocity of 4.
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