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Social Media harms: just another moral panic.

www.thedailybeast.com The Coddling of the American Parent

Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.

The Coddling of the American Parent

Shout out the Ontario school boards suing social media giants for the harm caused to kids. Edit: forgot the /s!

To be clear, the article tries to make clear that the social media panic is a moral panic comparable to every other media or recreational moral panic like rock music, dungeons and dragons, and video games. And I agree with the author.

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