How Do You Knock Out Two Percentbles?

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Sally Kohn: How do you knock out the worst 2% of intonsic people on Twitter? She says they have real names and platforms, so can't be knocked out by a verification. So here's an idea that i'd love people who know more about this to develop is something like this. Every person could even have a bet, rated for two things, nuance and hostility. And if we all had that, where you could set it in that way, You can say what you want. But most of us could then actually express ourselves on twitter without knowing that we'll be onsulted horribly.

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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