Why We Still Are All on Twitter?

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Social scientists are trying to create a space in which and people, mi ow, you're being well, you know, twitter is creatid a weird new space, and the results are horrible. The question becomes, when do usis incentivis tech companies to create vos environments? What can tet companies to teach their users to prefer vose enviolence? But also, what can users do to incentivise te companies to choose bosh environments? And one way of proaching that question, why we still are all on twitter?

One of the world’s most influential social psychologists, a professor of ethical leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business, and a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors, Jonathan Haidt is the author of The Righteous Mind and, with Greg Lukianoff, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt recently wrote a much-read feature in The Atlantic entitled “After Babel.”

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jonathan Haidt discuss how we can make social media less toxic, what political and technological reforms might help fix the problem, and how we can empower the moderate majority to fight for its values.

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