TikTok, and Instagram—has been blamed for contributing to the crisis. But a committee of the national academies found that the relationship between social media and youth mental health is complex, with potential benefits as well as harms. ...
Murthy has previously stressed the potential harms that teenagers encounter from social media platforms, pushing last year forstronger guidelinesfor children and teens amid growing research that indicates the apps pose what he described at the time as a "profound risk" to young people's mental heal...
"Our results suggest that social media itself doesn't cause harm, but that frequent use may disrupt activities that have a positive impact on mental health such as sleeping and exercising, while increasing exposure of young people to harmful content, particularly the negative experience of cyber-bu...
The breadth of research on adolescent and social media use focuses on its negative impacts on mental health. While potential harms such as social filters, triggers, and cyber bullying or trolling exist, there are also plenty of potential benefits, for example, healthy self-expression, a sense ...
RELATED:Venmo for teens: Social payment app officially available for those 13 and up Policymakers need to address the harms ofsocial mediathe same way they regulate things like car seats, baby formula, medication and other products children use, Murthy said in a report published Tuesday. ...
Dozens of U.S. states filed a lawsuit against Meta and its Instagram social media platform on Tuesday, accusing the multinational technology conglomerate of contributing to the mental health crisis in American youth by making them addicted to its product
The timing is suggestive: mental health began to slide just as smartphones and social apps took off, in the 2010s. Some studies also suggest that children who spend more time on social media have poorer mental health than lighter users. But such correlations do not prove causation: it may...
Unfortunately, social media apps look to device makers to protect children from the more bitter harms of social media, while device makers turn around and blame the social media companies. Everyone is passing the blame while parents are simply looking for solutions that allow their kids to access...
Today, Radwan speaks about the harms of social media to teens and has joined a lawsuit against Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms Inc. that seeks to hold the tech giant accountable for the harms its platforms have caused to children and teens...
"Although social media platforms may claim that they can self-regulate their practices to reduce the harms to young people, they have yet to do so, and our study suggests they have overwhelming financial incentives to continue to delay taking meaningful steps to protect children," said S....