These guys are like the villains in every over the top dystopian fiction.

Between Facebook, twitter and ai, it’s like the Batman villains from the 60’s.

Many academics have vocally disagreed with Haidt’s conclusion that social media can be directly linked to declines in teens’ mental health. Haidt’s former colleague Peter Gray, a psychology research professor at Boston College, recently published a book criticizing Haidt’s theory as promoting a moral panic and offered an alternative theory that pins adolescent mental health issues to the rise of a stringent education curriculum under Common Core. Other prominent researchers also have critiqued the theory, and several large studies and meta analyses have found little or no direct effect of social media use on teen mental health at the population level.

Still, Haidt’s theory has gained credence with many parents, teachers, and teens who believe it reflects their experience with social media.