Jonathan Haidt

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899 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 24 Jun

Jonathan Haidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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You have the same fight within the family.

You have the same addiction going on.

The devices work the same way on developing brains.

Quick dopamine, quick dopamine addiction addiction.

That's universal human experience of growing up with touchscreens.

That wasn't true for television.

Television isn't the quick dopamine, quick addiction thing.

but now it is.

And so there's no issue of unfair targeting.

There's the recognition that technology, we've always had a complex relationship with it, and it's always been mostly positive with some negatives.

And my argument is that something new happened by the early 2010s.

The smartphone, the touchscreen, all of that has created a digital environment that I think is mostly damaging to development with some positives.

Great, let's go through it because it's really important for people to understand a few aspects of the scientific debate here.

So let's start with the argument that social media is a lifeline.

That's the word you'll hear.

Social media is a lifeline for LGBTQ kids.

This is a talking point pushed by Meta and others to try to inflame sentiment on the left.

And then they say any regulation is censorship.

They say that to inflame people on the right.

You know what was a lifeline for LGBTQ kids?

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