Jonathan Haidt: "Social networks are Babel, the fragmentation of everything, confusion everywhere"

Jonathan Haidt teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business.

He is the author with Greg Lukianoff of a remarkable essay on the ravages of wokism in American universities, "The Coddling of the American Mind", published in 2018.

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The techno-democratic optimism that reigned in the early 2010s has given way to deep disenchantment: as in the myth of the Tower of Babel, after taking ourselves for gods, we no longer understand each other and social networks look like a Far West that urgently needs to be regulated, explains Jonathan Haidt.

According to him, the problem is not so much the moderation of content, demanded by many, as the architecture of the platforms, which favors extreme speech, whether it comes from the right or the left.

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