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Facebook Calls Links To Depression Inconclusive. These Researchers Disagree

The company has reached out to a number of researchers in recent months, though those same researchers are skeptical about the company's motivations.

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Hasnain says:

“The problem is compounded by how little government funding is going toward studying the effects of these platforms, relative to how much of each day many Americans spend engaged with the technology.

Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is mostly focused on curing diseases, but because there is no specific disease officially associated with screen time, experts say it's difficult to get studies funded by the federal government.”

Posted on 2021-05-19T05:29:05+0000