Why Are Social Media's Effects So Hard to Study? Because Only the Companies Can Truly Do It.
Podcast: The Rip CurrentPublished On: Mon Apr 20 2026
Description: This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theripcurrent.comA new Pew survey and a viral Stanford study are being used to suggest social media barely harms teenagers. The numbers in both are smaller than the headlines suggest — and neither has access to the data that would settle the question.That data does exist, however. It’s just inside Meta’s servers. NYU researchers have now catalogued 35 internal Meta stud…
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