What's the Difference Between Twitter and Facebook?

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Twitter is the difference, or twitter generalized to the hypervyralized social medi byr. In its original incarnation, social meia is not harmful. But beginning in 20, 14, 15, a kind of fear came over us. Because if you challenge anything, especialy about diversity, gender, race, trans islam, therere few really hot button topics and they're all about identity. And then you don't know what'll happen an investigation can file charges against you. So i get that that is the constitution of knowledge. Why does that go out of a window? We still have the first amendment. We still have academic freedom. Therea still some journalistic standards

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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