Jonathan Haidt

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

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So that's just, I mean, that was the most spectacular one.

I was really surprised by that.

But that's what I'm getting at, that everyone sees it.

Everyone cares about this.

Well, I think it seems to be the only way that we have.

Let's imagine that there was a new consumer product introduced, you know, some new toy or a new kind of candy bar with some new ingredient.

And if we knew from internal reports from the companies that they deliberately designed it to be addictive, they put something addictive in it.

And then a couple years after introduction, 90% of kids are eating 10 candy bars a day and diabetes is going up.

They're not eating healthy food.

And we see rates rising around the world.

At some point, there might be someone who says, maybe this is not a safe consumer product.

Maybe this company should be held liable for the harm it's inflicting on literally hundreds of millions of kids, literally hundreds of millions.

Because social media is used by almost all kids.

I mean, there are some countries where it's not.

But in the medium to high-income countries, it's almost universal.

This is, we all know someone who has a kid who's been hospitalized, eating disorder, suicide.

We all know people.

It is everywhere.

And these companies have never faced a jury, ever.

No one has succeeded in holding them responsible for what they did to their kids.

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