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“The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

There is no evidence that using social media is driving an epidemic of mental illness and blaming it can distract from effectively responding to the real causes (Candice L. Odgers/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.