Tomorrow: Moral Panic or Public Health Crisis? A Live — and Genuine — Debate About Kids and Screens with Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz says we're in a moral panic. Jake Ward says we're watching public health move at its usual speed. One of them is right. Maybe both. Tune in tomorrow.
Tomorrow I'm sitting down live with Taylor Lorenz — and we disagree. She thinks the alarm around smartphones and kids is a moral panic. I think it's what the early days of every public health reckoning look like. We're going to work through the evidence together, and I genuinely don't know where we'll land. That's the point.
Join us live at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET tomorrow, Friday February 20th.
This was a genuine and informative debate! Thanks for providing these perspectives on the trials concerning social media platforms!
It seems to me that when Zuck’s lawyers argue that the plaintiff was already screwed up the question should be, So let’s say she was screwed up. Millions of American adolescents are having a bad time of it. Did META do anything to help them?