I Think Twitter Could Be Causing And Seriously Exacerbating Mental-Health Problems

Why you might not want to write this off as just another moral panic

Last week I interviewed Freddie DeBoer, one of my favorite leftist writers and thinkers. During the segment of our conversation centered on Twitter and mental health, he said that Twitter can have a negative effect on some people struggling on that front. He was drawing in part on his own experiences — deBoer has bipolar disorder and left Twitter for go…