Inside the ‘Instagram Intifada’ on College Campuses — and Why Jonathan Haidt Says Social Media Is Hurting the Cause

The author of ‘The Anxious Generation’ tells the Sun that growing up with social media ‘makes you a very different kind of person, a very different kind of activist.’

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Police in riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus on Thursday. AP/Mary Altaffer

Student protests over the war at Gaza are unlike those from recent American history. In the 1960s, students protesting the Vietnam War chanted “Make Love, Not War.” Civil rights activists sang “We Shall Overcome.” In 2024, campus demonstrators, though, shout, “Death to America” and “We are Hamas!”

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