‘Addicted, outraged, polarized’: expert on social media's model

"We are now sitting through the results of ten years of a psychological deranging process," Harris said, which he suggested is thwarting society's ability to deal with "real problems, which are existential threats like climate change, the rise of China, pandemic, education and infrastructure."

Representatives from social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google along with experts in social media testified at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing Tuesday titled "Algorithms and Amplification: How Social Media Platforms' Design Choices Shape Our Discourse and Our Minds."