Tech: Facebook-Instagram's secret is out, this is how they are ruining your mental health..

Meta has faced serious allegations that the company suppressed internal research that revealed the impact of Facebook and Instagram on users' mental health. This information was provided in a lawsuit filed by US school districts against Meta. The study found that the impact on mental health could increase problems like depression and anxiety in users. Despite this knowledge, Meta shut down the internal research.

After not using Facebook for a week… Users began to show these symptoms.
Documents reveal that in 2020, Meta launched an internal study called Project Mercury, in which researchers, in collaboration with Nielsen, measured the impact of users deactivating Facebook and Instagram. The results were not what the company had expected. According to the filing, internal documents stated that people who stopped using Facebook for a week experienced problems like depression, anxiety, and loneliness.

Instead of releasing the results or conducting further research, Meta reportedly halted the project. In a recent statement, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said the company abandoned the study because the methodology was flawed and stressed that Meta has continually worked to make its products safer.

A staff researcher wrote that the Nielsen study demonstrates the real impact of social comparisons. Another employee compared the alleged silence about the results to the tobacco industry, which conducts research and knows cigarettes are bad, and then keeps that information to itself.

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