Jonathan Haidt

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

And the report comes out and it has a chapter showing all these harms, all these ways that it's harming kids.

But yet, in the summary of the report, there was this sentence.

It says, our review, quote, did not support the conclusion that social media causes changes in adolescent health at the population level.

So I read this and I'm like, what the hell, guys?

You have a whole chapter showing how it's hurting kids.

What does it mean, the population level?

And what I realized by reading further, what they mean is we're not confident that this is what caused those big increases after 2012.

And okay, he's right.

Because how do you prove something happened in history?

It's very hard.

You can't run experiments.

So I will grant that we can't be 100% certain that what I said in the anxious generation is right.

Can't be 100% certain.

I'd love to hear another hypothesis, but the historical question is very hard to settle.

But that's not what people want to know.

What parents want to know and what legislators want to know is, is this consumer product, which all kids are consuming massive quantities of, is this consumer product hurting kids?

That's what they want to know.

And guess what?

We have seven different lines of evidence saying, yes, it's hurting kids.

The kids say it.

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