Concerns surrounding the impact of social media on teen mental health heightened following the release of the Facebook Papers in 2021, which revealed internal documents suggesting Meta was aware of the negative impact Instagram had on some teens.
Per the article, not only is he wrong, but he’s knowingly wrong thanks to inside company research concluding the contrary.
I haven’t seen anything that indicates there is, so he’s not wrong.
While there’s links between depression and social media use, I haven’t seen anything causal determined.
It could be the other way around, that people are more likely to use social media when feeling depressed.
It’s very difficult to prove if a correlation is causal.
Per the article, not only is he wrong, but he’s knowingly wrong thanks to inside company research concluding the contrary.
Also colloquially known as lying.