Jonathan Haidt

So you can get a sense like, okay, what is the nature of the research that's out there? And as I began to see that actually the correlational studies are pretty consistent. There are some that show no correlation, but those tend to be all digital media for all kids with all kinds of outcomes.

So you can get a sense like, okay, what is the nature of the research that's out there? And as I began to see that actually the correlational studies are pretty consistent. There are some that show no correlation, but those tend to be all digital media for all kids with all kinds of outcomes.

So you can get a sense like, okay, what is the nature of the research that's out there? And as I began to see that actually the correlational studies are pretty consistent. There are some that show no correlation, but those tend to be all digital media for all kids with all kinds of outcomes.

Every time you zoom in on just social media for girls, anxiety and depression, you find a much bigger correlation. The second is that there are now about 25 experiments where you randomly assign people, usually college students. It's hard to work with 12-year-olds. Weirdest people on earth. That's right. The weirdest people on earth. That's right. Famous article.

Every time you zoom in on just social media for girls, anxiety and depression, you find a much bigger correlation. The second is that there are now about 25 experiments where you randomly assign people, usually college students. It's hard to work with 12-year-olds. Weirdest people on earth. That's right. The weirdest people on earth. That's right. Famous article.

Every time you zoom in on just social media for girls, anxiety and depression, you find a much bigger correlation. The second is that there are now about 25 experiments where you randomly assign people, usually college students. It's hard to work with 12-year-olds. Weirdest people on earth. That's right. The weirdest people on earth. That's right. Famous article.

But where you randomly assign people to get off social media. And if you look just at the studies that kept them off for more than a week, almost all of them find benefits on measures of anxiety and depression. And so once you have correlational studies and you have experimental studies and you have eyewitness testimony, because Gen Z generally says this is harming them.

But where you randomly assign people to get off social media. And if you look just at the studies that kept them off for more than a week, almost all of them find benefits on measures of anxiety and depression. And so once you have correlational studies and you have experimental studies and you have eyewitness testimony, because Gen Z generally says this is harming them.

But where you randomly assign people to get off social media. And if you look just at the studies that kept them off for more than a week, almost all of them find benefits on measures of anxiety and depression. And so once you have correlational studies and you have experimental studies and you have eyewitness testimony, because Gen Z generally says this is harming them.

It's very hard to find members of Gen Z who are saying, no, social media is great. We love it. It's good for us. And we have confessions from the companies. On my sub stack after Babbel, we have an article, TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale using just their own words from the lawsuits against them. We know some of their internal memos and correspondence, just their own words.

It's very hard to find members of Gen Z who are saying, no, social media is great. We love it. It's good for us. And we have confessions from the companies. On my sub stack after Babbel, we have an article, TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale using just their own words from the lawsuits against them. We know some of their internal memos and correspondence, just their own words.

It's very hard to find members of Gen Z who are saying, no, social media is great. We love it. It's good for us. And we have confessions from the companies. On my sub stack after Babbel, we have an article, TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale using just their own words from the lawsuits against them. We know some of their internal memos and correspondence, just their own words.

They know they're harming millions and millions of kids a year.

They know they're harming millions and millions of kids a year.

They know they're harming millions and millions of kids a year.

Oh my God, that's right. Chinese kids get spinach all about how great China is and how to be an astronaut. And we get fentanyl and dog poop.

Oh my God, that's right. Chinese kids get spinach all about how great China is and how to be an astronaut. And we get fentanyl and dog poop.

Oh my God, that's right. Chinese kids get spinach all about how great China is and how to be an astronaut. And we get fentanyl and dog poop.

No, I'm the last of the baby boomers.

No, I'm the last of the baby boomers.