Grim social consequences of social-media addiction / Challenges to enforcement of constitutional rights

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. In the first segment, Eleanor’s guest contends that overuse of social-media delivers not only diminished attention spans, but also a diminished ability to understand other people, and thus greater intolerance to people perceived as “different.” Then, in the second half of the program, what do federal actions such as the arrest and jailing of Mahmoud Khalil demonstrate about the difficulties of actually enforcing an individual’s constitutional rights? Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq is a psychiatrist and writer based in Texas . She has a Substack channel called “the Middle Path.” Chip Gibbons is Policy Director at Defending Rights and Dissent (www.rightsanddissent.org), and is working on a book about FBI surveillance.   The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. The post Grim social consequences of social-media addiction / Challenges to enforcement of constitutional rights appeared first on KPFA.