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Social Media Addiction Isn't Real— Here is What's Really Happening

12/19/2025 • 27 min

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/taylorlorenz Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co >> People cannot stop claiming they are "addicted" to social media. Lawmakers continue to compare social media use to drug or alcohol addictions, while the media pu… Play episode

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The Global Internet Is Dying: America Is Repeating China's Biggest Mistake
Everyone Is Wrong About The Olivia Nuzzi RFK Scandal w/ Kat Tenbarge
Congress Is About to Break the Internet
The Radicalization Pipeline Nobody Sees Coming
None Of This is About Online Safety
The MAGA Twitter Apocalypse w/ Charlie Warzel
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The Epstein Saga Is Sending the Internet Into Chaos w/ Brace Belden
The Government Is Spying on College Football Games
How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War
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Why Every Hit Pop Song Sounds the Same Now
The New Legal Fight to Destroy Super PACs Forever
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The Shocking Plan to Kill Online Privacy: A VPN Ban Will Break the Web
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The Truth About Nepal’s Gen Z Uprising
The Secret Role Of Influencers In Global Propaganda
Trump's Censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Is Just The Beginning
The Truth Behind The Rise of 'Robot Racism'
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The Death of Casual Posting w/ Kyle Chayka
ICE can now hack your phone without you knowing
The Shocking Truth About Dark Money and Influencers
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The True Story Behind Four Loko
YouTube's AI Age Verification is a Disaster
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Everyone’s Lying About Lil Tay OnlyFans w/ Kat Tenbarge
Is ChatGPT Changing The Way We Talk? w/ Adam Aleksic
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The Public Health Internet Is Crumbling
How Companies Learned Everything About Us
ICE Is Building a Nationwide Tracking System (and Your Data is In It)
Why we can’t stop doxxing people for fun
AI Deepfake Panic is Killing Free Speech

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