Two more studies show that when young people quit or reduce social media for as little as one week, their anxiety/depression drops.
One (with no control group) was written up in the NYT:
https://t.co/xyGj5Knv38
The other, much more rigorous, was conducted by Meta and then buried. But a description of it came out during the lawsuits. It was called "Project Mercury".
Read about it, and many other damning findings that Meta is hiding, here, from @JeffHorwitz:
https://t.co/F2YEYG4N5a
Here is the key passage:
In a 2020 research project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of “deactivating” Facebook, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery. To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.
Rather than publishing those findings or pursuing additional research, the filing states, Meta called off further work and internally declared that the negative study findings were tainted by the “existing media narrative” around the company.
Privately, however, a staffer insisted that the conclusions of the research were valid, according to the filing.
“The Nielsen study does show causal impact on social comparison,” (unhappy face emoji), an unnamed staff researcher allegedly wrote. Another staffer worried that keeping quiet about negative findings would be akin to the tobacco industry “doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves.”
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