No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong. But apparently, thanks to yet another f*cked up thing that Meta has done, any academic who critiques him is presumed to be a corporate shill. WTAF is going on?

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Note the reason for the anger. It wasn’t about the corruption. He just didn’t get his cut.

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It's easy to come up with amazing applications for technology if you're allowed to assume that you can get everyone else in the world to set aside *their* priorities and *their* interests in favor of *yours*. But unless someone has a plan to do that, we shouldn't take them seriously. eof/

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And of course, here is the story. These documents posted via these threads are a companion of sorts to the story. They also show the kind of work that goes on behind our reporting. You don't just go out to the field. You dig. For months Turn every page, Caro said. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

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This makes me think of a law professor who told me that I should stop talking or writing about being SA'ed as a child or my experiences flowing from being a victim because I "need to move past bad things that happened [to me]." Fucking gross.

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