Jonathan Haidt

TikTok is about becoming stupid and unable to pay attention.

Snapchat has some of that.

Snapchat has lots of little stuff, but Snapchat is the best way.

If you want to have sex with a child, or if you want to meet children, Snapchat makes it easy because everything disappears.

Snapchat pushes you to connect to friends of friends, and most kids have thousands of friends, most of whom are strangers.

So Snapchat is implicated in a lot of the fentanyl deaths because it's so easy to buy drugs on Snapchat.

So each platform has a different profile of harms.

You mentioned Discord.

We're just, my group, we're just beginning to study Discord and Roblox.

Yeah, in my lab, in the Tech and Society lab at NYU Stern.

Any platform that puts you into conversation

with adults who are not known, not verified.

The platform has no idea who they are.

Snapchat was revealed in internal documents.

Snapchat was getting 10,000 reports of sextortion in 2022, not per year, per week.

I'm sorry, per month, per month.

That was per month.

That's right.

And a number of those kids then killed themselves.

This is especially for boys.