social media

“If you think about what social media has become, I would put it on the top of the list that includes other critical national resources that any country has.”

“I definitely think this is part of this ongoing populism versus the elites war, and social media is now the tool that the people use to organize themselves against these powerful elites.”

“I actually think they're more similar than different at a core physiological level.”

“What's happening in social media is within seconds, you make evolutionary votes on kind of what you want in the media cycle. And then all of a sudden, a few hours later, you're getting exactly what you want over and over again, and you can't say no. And that's…”

“I mean, I just, you know, I, yes, I think there's like a kernel of truth here in terms of, yes, it does exacerbate body image issues, but I don't believe that Facebook Or social media created those issues.”

“I support China's limits on social media use by children.”

“Virality dumbs down information because nuanced information doesn't hit as hard.”

“One thing that people in Silicon Valley get right for all their faults and self-servingness in some ways, right, They kind of get the orders of magnitudes, right? They understand scale and social media and the daily news cycle really collapses that, right? So …”

“Now people can go online and just see how yeah, how, how mentally limited a lot of elites are just by looking at their Twitter profiles, or the things that they say, things that they write about, whatever expressions that they have online,”

“So there is a bill right now working its way through the California assembly that would go to Gavin Newsom that would prohibit The use of social media by under 16 year olds.”

“Look, I think at the end of the day, this idea that we're all being brainwashed and secretly influenced by malign foreign actors, I think is at a minimum threat inflation, and that entire narrative might just be completely bogus.”

“I think that social media will make this perception more widespread than it's been at other moments of revolution and innovation, but we've gone through this before.”

“Social media is wildly inappropriate for minors. It's full of extreme sex, violence you know, men from all over the world reaching out to you because they want sex.”

“And so the far left becomes super empowered, the far right becomes super empowered, and the center left and the center right go silent, and that's what I think is, you know, that's, I think, a real disaster for our country,”

“If you just compare this so-called AI psychosis to the effects of social media, again, I think it's relatively benign because it's something that people are doing to inform themselves about things and they can go down rabbit holes, but it doesn't really trigge…”

“And I think that one way to kind of think about this thesis is that AI is gonna ultimately accrue to video game entertainment far more than social media entertainment or traditional content.”

“What they're really talking about is social media, and then they attribute all the ills of social media over to these new AI chat apps, and they are a little different.”

“I still think social media is by far the best for accuracy.”

“Social media causes immense harm, particularly causes harm for kids. Kids should not be on social media until they're 16.”