Candice L. Odgers, a professor in the psychological science department at the University of California, Irvine, says Haidt’s findings are unsupported by research.

“Hundreds of researchers, myself included, have searched for the kind of large effects suggested by Haidt,” Odgers wrote in the academic journal Nature. “Our efforts have produced a mix of no, small and mixed associations. Most data are correlative. When associations over time are found, they suggest not that social-media use predicts or causes depression, but that young people who already have mental health problems use such platforms more often or in different ways from their healthy peers.””

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