Facebook’s Own Data Is Not as Conclusive as You Think About Teens and Mental Health
NPR October 6, 2021
Filed in: Health & Wellbeing | Technology
NPR spoke with Candice Odgers, PhD, psychologist at UC Irvine and Duke University and member of our National Scientific Council on Adolescence, about why Facebook's marketing data on youth and social media—the subject of testimony to a Senate panel—doesn't match the research.
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