Full Transcript: Moral Panic or Public Health Crisis?

Taylor Lorenz and Jacob Ward spent an hour live debating the social media addiction trials, the reactionary movements that benefit from panic, and where the two of them actually agree on.

“No prior passive medium was algorithmically optimized at the individual level like this is. These companies, as we’re seeing in discovery in the Zuckerberg trial, show this incredible effort to optimize individual time on platform.”

— Jacob Ward

“If these people win the social media addiction trial and we get all the age verification, guess what these te…