{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"btrmt. lectures","title":"It’s Not Social Media, Life Is Just Worse","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/fff0ad17\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1752,"description":"Everyone's worried about social media and mental health. Jonathan Haidt sold two million copies telling us smartphones rewired our children's brains. Thirty-five US states passed phone restriction legislation off the back of it. But when you look at the research—really look—the evidence for social media causing mental health problems is shockingly thin. What isn't thin is the evidence that life, structurally, is getting worse in a dozen measurable ways. Maybe we're blaming the screen because the alternative is harder to fix.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nHGcYn44T9MIIjASUEeNicQYvsgtxvw014X36gIvoXc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85Yjll/ODRkZTJhYzM1NzZh/ODgyMTBhZTBiNGFk/MjI3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}