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EPISODE · Mar 27, 2026 · 30 MIN

The Algorithm Trap with Dr. Jean Twenge

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This week, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for deliberately designing their platforms to addict children. The verdict didn't come out of nowhere — the science has been building for over a decade. Chalin talks with Dr. Jean Twenge, psychologist and author of iGen, about what the data has been saying since 2012, why the law protecting kids online was written in 1998 before social media existed, and what it means that the next version of this problem isn't an app — it's an AI that will date your teenager.

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