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How Social Media Has Fueled the Rise of the Personal-Growth Narrative
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August 12, 2026
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1:17Now PlayingSocial-media algorithms are boosting growth narratives, and it is pushing people to share only how they’re getting better, the author Kathryn Jezer-Morton tells Charlie Warzel: “It’s a very convenient way of telling your story as a person, in a way that other people can understand.”
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