Meta schemed ‘whisper strategy’ to discredit influential social media critic Jonathan Haidt: bombshell docs

Source: New York Post

Meta employees schemed about how to “get the academic community to disavow” social media critic Jonathan Haidt — a ploy to tamp down claims that its apps were fueling a teen mental health crisis, according to newly unsealed court documents. Haidt, a social psychologist who penned the best-selling book “The Anxious Generation,” is one of the most influential figures speaking out against Big Tech and the effects that smartphones and social media have had on kids. When Meta lost a historic social media addiction case in Los Angeles earlier this year, Haidt wrote that “history will judge them as harshly as the tobacco industry.