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by redthrow 812 days ago
Tyler Cowen also did a podcast with Jonathan Haidt where he questioned Haidt's conclusion that the smartphone/social media are the cause of (some) younger people's poor mental health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQoNd9oEeoI

(The discussion on Haidt's book "The Anxious Generation" starts at 13:08)

Cowen also questioned Haidt's prescription about how social media companies and the government should regulate social media through (stricter) age verification etc.