Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.
Shout out the Ontario school boards suing social media giants for the harm caused to kids. Edit: forgot the /s!
To be clear, the article tries to make clear that the social media panic is a moral panic comparable to every other media or recreational moral panic like rock music, dungeons and dragons, and video games. And I agree with the author.
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In case the downvoters aren’t reading the article, it is also critical of the author’s claims.
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Holy crap, I missed the /s😠 off to fix it…
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