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Facebook's own internal documents offer a blueprint for making social media safer for teens

  • Written by Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
Facebook's own internal documents offer a blueprint for making social media safer for teensWhat if there were a social media blackout for teens during certain hours of the night?NitaYuko/iStock via Getty Images

Right at the time social media became popular, teen mental health began to falter. Between 2010 and 2019, rates of depression and loneliness doubled in the U.S. and globally, suicide rates soared for teens in the U.S. and emergency...

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