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Jonathan Haidt on How to Save Kids from Social Media | The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses social media’s “subversion of the ability to pay attention on a species-wide level,” how policymakers are intervening, and what more we should be doing to protect children.

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