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#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Future for Teen Mental Health?

The biggest change for teen mental health, I think, is to raise the age from 13. There's no way that Facebook can say, actually, so look, Instagram, the age is 13, but they don't enforce it. And they're under pressure to not enforce it because if they did enforce it, then all the kids would just go to TikTok - which they're doing anyway. When you have a social dilemma, each player can't opt out because they're going to lose. You have to have central regulation. So I think there's an essential role for regulation. The UK Parliament is way ahead of us. I think they're actually functional. The US Congress is not

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