Jonathan Haidt
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They're much more likely to be sextorted and pulled into sexual trafficking.
So please don't confuse social media, which is one of the worst parts, along with gambling and porn and a few others.
Don't confuse that with the internet.
The internet has a lot of advantages.
Okay, now, then the larger point is there is a scientific debate.
There are a number of researchers who say, well, they don't say that social media is safe.
What they say is,
There's a correlation.
We all agree that people who use it a lot are more mentally ill.
Everyone agrees about that.
But some say, well, but maybe it's that people who are more mentally ill, they seek it out to find community.
Okay, well, first of all, that wouldn't explain why as soon as kids got on social media around 2012, the girls got on Instagram, wouldn't explain why at that point, then that's when mental health tanked.
But even that's a correlation.
That's a historical correlation.
Two things happen at the same time.
What my lab has been doing is we've been gathering the evidence of causality.
How do we know that it's not just a correlation?
How do we know that it's causal?
And actually, this is what we do in science.
I mean, this is not an impossible task.
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