{"id":1736448,"date":"2022-11-12T18:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T23:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1736448"},"modified":"2022-11-12T18:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T23:17:49","slug":"dr-jordan-b-peterson-social-media-is-part-of-pollution-of-the-domain-of-public-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-jordan-b-peterson-social-media-is-part-of-pollution-of-the-domain-of-public-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jordan B. Peterson: Social Media Is Part Of \u2018Pollution Of The Domain Of Public Discourse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdr-jordan-b-peterson-social-media-is-part-of-pollution-of-the-domain-of-public-discourse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1736448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jordan-peterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordan B. Peterson<\/a> said that social media platforms are contributing to a \u201cpollution\u201d of public discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&#038;v=UtmItBYn3E8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piers Morgan Uncensored<\/a>\u201d Friday, Peterson refuted the idea that social media contributes to tribalism and polarization in politics. Instead, Peterson said that social media incentivizes anti-social and self-promoting behavior among users. Peterson cited a paper in the psychology journal Personality and Individual Differences, which found that certain personality traits lead users to spend more time on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we are descending into tribalism,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cI think what\u2019s happening is that the virtualization of the world is enabling people who behave in a particular\u2026 [self-aggrandizing] self-promoting anti-social way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peterson then cited an article published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0191886922004652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personality and Individual Differences<\/a>, entitled \u201cSocial media use and personality: Beyond self-reports and trait-level assessments.\u201d Among its findings, the paper found that women whose personalities were characterized by traits like narcissism, meanness, extroversion, and sadism used social media platforms like Instagram for longer and more frequently than men. Women who exhibited sadistic personalities used Facebook for a longer time than women with honest, humble, and conscientious ones; they also used the site for longer than men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve thought for a while that one of the things that\u2019s happening to us as we virtualize the world is that we\u2019re enabling us the small percentage of people \u2014 it\u2019s usually about three percent in general populations \u2014 who use manipulation and reputation savaging and denigration and self-promotion, so the genuinely psychopathic types, to dominate the social conversation and to spew their poisonous and manipulative venom into the public domain,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cNot only with no fear of being stopped and no inhibition \u2026 but also while being monetized and promoted by the people who run the social media channels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the polarization that we\u2019re feeling is a consequence of their untrammeled expression online \u2014 Instagram, Facebook and in online comment forums like Twitter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happening in some sense is that we have a new form of pollution, that\u2019s also corporate sponsored, and it\u2019s pollution of the domain of public discourse,\u201d Peterson continued. \u201cAnd the pollution occurs because the social media companies are either enabling or failing to control those known in the popular parlance as \u2018trolls.\u2019 But they\u2019re not just comical trolls, using derision in some cute way and and having their say in the Free Speech domain. They\u2019re really poisonous individuals and they\u2019re poisoning the entire domain.\u201d Peterson then called for social media companies to segregate comments sections to filter out anonymous trolls.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the interview, Morgan asked Peterson if he would like to be reinstated on Twitter now that CEO Elon Musk is promoting free speech on the site. Peterson said he wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a den of pathology that using it I think is psychologically damaging,\u201d he said. \u201cIf it\u2019s possible for Musk to get the trolls \u2014 and they\u2019re not trolls, they\u2019re psychopathic, Machiavellian, sadistic narcissists \u2014 under control, then it\u2019s possible that the platform might be useful. I like to share information. I like to follow people to see what they were up to, a lot of the people that I\u2019ve met over the years, but man, it\u2019s a snake pit, and it\u2019s not obvious to me that we know what to do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jordan B. Peterson said that social media platforms are contributing to a \u201cpollution\u201d of public discourse. Appearing on \u201cPiers Morgan Uncensored\u201d Friday, Peterson refuted the idea that social media contributes to tribalism and polarization in politics. Instead, Peterson said that social media incentivizes anti-social and self-promoting behavior among users. 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