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Comment by Lerc

2 days ago

At no point did I have your inserted [only] in my mind when I wrote that.

I certainly do think the idea that social media might be bad has spread far and wide. What I would like to see is experts in the field reaching a consensus on to what extent that idea is true, and what should be done about it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2#ref-CR6

It should be noted a lot of ideas have spread in recent years. We would do well to not believe all of them, no matter how comforting it is to externalize blame.

My apologies for misreading you then. I didn't expect you to object specifically to it being debated on substack in addition to by scientists, regulators etc.

How is that a signal the case against social media is weak?