Social media and teen mental health for girls is actually a bigger effect than many other public health effects. Gen Z, that is, people born after 1996, are really different from say, people born in 1993. Everything points to going through puberty on social media. It's the millennials. American childhood gets rewired between 2010 and 2015. We don't have normal human interaction. Kids now just curl up with their phone and everything goes through the phone, including their romantic lives now.
Kara and Scott dissect what the FTX meltdown means for cryptocurrency, Meta's layoffs, and how the midterms might impact big tech. Friend of Pivot Jonathan Haidt stops by to talk about the impacts of social media on teens and society. And hours after our regular taping, we dragged Scott out of a fancy London bar to record an updated reaction to the latest Twitter news: Elon Musk was warning of a possible Twitter bankruptcy, while top executives were jumping ship.
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