We’ve all heard how social media is devastating teen mental health — but a shocking new report confirms it’s robbing pretty much everyone of the ability to focus.

The meta-study from Griffith University in Australia analyzed 71 surveys with more than 98,000 research subjects and found that consuming short-form video is associated with diminished attention span and inhibition control.

“I used to think the main damage from social media was to youth mental health,” psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of the bestselling book “ The Anxious Generation ,” recently posted on X . “Now I believe that the global destruction of the human ability to pay attention may be even larger.”

Talking to The Post, he went even harder: “Humanity is getting stupider, thanks to our technology, at the exa

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