Adolescence Meets The Algorithm: Social Media's Mental Health Tradeoffs


Anyone who’s ever admired the targeting capabilities of social media while wondering what four hours of algorithmically optimized content does to the human brain now has some additional reading.

A new academic review finds that social media can help adolescents and young adults find communities, express themselves and access mental-health …


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