Society would be better off if social media disappeared, Sen. Josh Hawley argued in an op-ed published Wednesday.

“Maybe social media’s innovations do our country more harm than good. Maybe social media is best understood as a parasite on productive investment, on meaningful relationships, on a healthy society,” the Missouri Republican wrote in the piece published by USA Today. “Maybe we’d be better off if Facebook disappeared.”

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