Haidt’s team compiled hundreds of studies documenting social media harms.

Evidence

If you want a bunch of statistics, go online, and start reading around. The psychologist Jonathan Haidt and his colleagues have assembled a series of open-access essays that compile and discuss hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers addressing a set of basic harms in quantitative and qualitative terms: the impact of algorithmically driven, ad-financed social media ecosystems on education, political dysfunction, and so on. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 109

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Points to Haidt’s open-access essays on tech harms—a concrete, verificable research corpus relevant to the reader’s bet-testing of the attention-injustice claim.