“Curtiss’s goal for this work: how do we get the academic community to disavow Haidt. Can’t co-opt them, so how do we enrage them … so the media finds him not credible.”
Meta’s head of research didn’t want to refute Haidt. He wanted academics angry enough that “the media finds him not credible.” The minutes call it a below-the-line campaign. School districts suing Meta pulled them out in discovery. Companies with good data publish it. Companies without it whisper.