From Jenna Orkin

In a penetrating new piece, Gideon Lewis-Kraus digs into a comprehensive literature review curated by the social scientists Jonathan Haidt and Chris Bail, which lives as a sprawling, collaborative Google Doc that has attracted comments and additions by other experts in the field. “When I spoke to some of the researchers whose work had been included,” Lewis-Kraus writes, “I found a combination of broad, visceral unease with the current situation—with the banefulness of harassment and trolling; with the opacity of the platforms; with, well, the widespread presentiment that of course social media is in many ways bad—and a contrastive sense that it might not be catastrophically bad in some of the specific ways that many of us have come to take for granted as true.”

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