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Re:Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says... by henryaj on Thursday February 01, 2024 @05:43AM (#39214577)
> There are now mountains of exceptionally good research showing a solid causal link between social media use and negative mental health impacts

Given that essentially every young person uses social media, I don't see how there can be research showing a causal link - how can you establish causality when there's no control group?

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Re:Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says... by nonrandomstring on Thursday February 01, 2024 @06:17AM (#39214773)
> every young person uses social media

If you'd read this [0], which was the first result for "young people social media use" then you'd know that in Germany, for example only 52% use social media, Poland (58%), Czech Republic (56%), France (70%), Netherlands (65%), India (31%).

At least one third of the global population under 16 yo do not use social media. There's your control group.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/02/8-charts-...

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