Jonathan Haidt

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303 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 16 Jan

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Hard Fork · Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

You know, kids, if you're on social media, you can get sextorted.

If you're not, you can't really.

And the kids who get sextorted are deeply shamed.

You know, they shared a picture of themselves, these teenage boys usually.

And then their lives are ruined and some of them commit suicide.

So anyway, I'm just saying there's so many different mechanisms by which kids are getting harmed.

And depression and anxiety is just that those are just two of the pathways.

Sure.

So, when I started the book, I thought that the story was going to be girls using social media get depressed in part by social comparison.

That's what everyone was talking about, you know, five years ago.

And that's definitely one of the mechanisms.

And I didn't know what the story was for boys when I started.

And by the end of the book, and especially since the book came out, what I realized is...

It's the whole goddamn environment.

It's all the fishhooks dangled in front of boys.

You want porn, gambling, vaping, sports betting.

You know, even crypto investing is gamified.

Well, yes, you are, except I wouldn't use the word wobbly.

So let me explain that.

My interest in separating the two questions came about because there was this report issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in late 2023.

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