{
 "name": "social media",
 "type": "concept",
 "episodes": [
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  "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
  "all-in-2026-06-29-nate-silver-predicts-democrats-take-the-house-newsom-is-fadi"
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Engaging with the social-media algorithm is optional; the power lies in choosing whether to interface with it.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "8:50",
   "quote": "I have the choice as to whether or not I interface with the algorithm. And that's where the power",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Social media is designed to consume as much of your attention as possible, but using it remains optional.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "11:27",
   "quote": "social media is not only designed to suck up as much as that left-hand portion of your list is possible, but again, it's optional",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "Two highly disciplined SEALs reverting to heavy social-media use within 60 days tells you everything about how addictive the platforms are.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "14:55",
   "quote": "It says everything you need to know about the platform.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Social media is uniquely addictive because it is 'low resolution' enough that you stay aware you should be doing something else even while using it.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "20:13",
   "quote": "it's low resolution enough that your brain circuits can get attached to it and keep doing it while you're monitoring yourself",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Huberman fears social media's harm to careers and human potential more than he fears AI taking jobs.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "22:40",
   "quote": "I fear this much more than I fear AI, to be honest. Much much more.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "claim": "The younger generation is starting to view social-media platforms with a more wary eye and may be okay.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.6,
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "23:38",
   "quote": "I think we're going to be okay, because I think that generation now is really viewing these platforms with a little bit more of a wary eye",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "When kids realize they are being manipulated by big platforms, leveraging that against the industry can drive healthy pushback — as it did with anti-smoking.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.65,
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "25:51",
   "quote": "when kids realize and teens realize that they're being manipulated, they'll push back in a way that can be really good for them",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Attraction to other people is not itself a problem for relationships; the danger is repeated, escalating follow-through.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "infidelity",
    "relationships",
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:15:44",
   "quote": "The simple fact that we can be attracted to other people, that is not a problem for the average relationship. It's the repeated follow through on that attraction that becomes a problem.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "James Sexton",
   "reported_by": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Social media acts as an 'attack vector' on committed relationships by enabling follow-up contact, so committed people might benefit from getting off it entirely.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.65,
   "subjects": [
    "social media",
    "relationships",
    "infidelity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:16:32",
   "quote": "That's what James Sexton is referring to when he talks about social media being a, barring other person's language here, an attack vector, you know, on a relationship.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Nate Silver",
   "claim": "The evidence is pretty decent that phones and social media significantly harm youth satisfaction.",
   "stance": "fact_cited",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "social media",
    "capitalism"
   ],
   "timestamp": "42:09",
   "quote": "I think the evidence is pretty decent, like phones and social media affect youth satisfaction a lot.",
   "episode_id": "all-in-2026-06-29-nate-silver-predicts-democrats-take-the-house-newsom-is-fadi",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Nate Silver",
   "claim": "AI models gravitate toward consensus and expert opinion, making them probably less polarizing than social media platforms.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.55,
   "subjects": [
    "AI",
    "polarization",
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "42:09",
   "quote": "There's some initial evidence that the models actually gravitate toward consensus views, expert opinion.",
   "episode_id": "all-in-2026-06-29-nate-silver-predicts-democrats-take-the-house-newsom-is-fadi",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Nate Silver",
   "claim": "A person shouldn't hold correlated stances across unrelated issues — partisanship squishes complex politics into one dimension, and Twitter is a very effective mechanism for that.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "partisanship",
    "Twitter",
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "46:28",
   "quote": "Partisanship is a very powerful force to squish this very complicated array of political issues we have in the United States into just one dimension, blue versus red or left versus right. And social media, Twitter in particular, I think is a very effective mechanism for that.",
   "episode_id": "all-in-2026-06-29-nate-silver-predicts-democrats-take-the-house-newsom-is-fadi",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Nate Silver",
   "claim": "Feed algorithms should not presume to be smarter than the user — followed accounts should appear without extra signals, and breaking chronological order is a mistake.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "Twitter",
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "48:08",
   "quote": "I don't like any algorithm that like, presumes it's like smarter than the user",
   "episode_id": "all-in-2026-06-29-nate-silver-predicts-democrats-take-the-house-newsom-is-fadi",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  }
 ],
 "predictions": [
  {
   "holder": "Andy Stumpf",
   "prediction": "His teenage daughter, currently heavily attached to her phone, will eventually come around to a healthier relationship with screens like his older sons did.",
   "timeframe": "unspecified",
   "subjects": [
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "23:38",
   "quote": "So I think she will get there as well too",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  }
 ],
 "facts": [
  {
   "statement": "Stumpf got his daily phone screen time down to 30 minutes in the last week of January by forcing usage onto his laptop.",
   "subjects": [
    "Andy Stumpf",
    "social media"
   ],
   "value": "30 minutes/day",
   "timestamp": "11:42",
   "quote": "the last week of January for me, I got mine down to 30 minutes",
   "source": "Andy Stumpf",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-15-the-mental-frame-specific-daily-actions-to-succeed-andy-stum",
   "published_at": "2026-06-15"
  }
 ],
 "first_seen": "2026-06-15",
 "last_seen": "2026-06-29"
}