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As always @ianb's Law of Headline's applies re: this New Yorker piece positing that Moody, arsehole and suicidal kids is ALL SOCIAL MEDIA’s FAULT

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/social-media-mental-health-suicide-crisis-teens

For a full take down, read @mmasnick piece including this excerpt

“Andrew Przybylski, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, has observed that decreasing life satisfaction among youths between the ages of ten and twenty usually led to an increase in social-media use. “But the opposite isn’t necessarily true,” he writes. “In most groups, the more time a child spends on social media doesn’t mean their life satisfaction will decrease.” Working with Amy Orben, a Cambridge psychologist, Przybylski has also noted that lower life satisfaction correlates slightly more strongly with wearing glasses than with digital-technology use.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/02/new-yorkers-social-media-is-killing-kids-article-waits-71-paragraphs-to-admit-evidence-doesnt-support-the-premise/