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Even Meta's OWN research indicated social media is actively harmful to teens. That means, the people with the most to lose couldn't even escape this conclusion.

Sure, you may be able to find 1 or 2 counterexamples, big tabacco also had a lot of "doctors" who found smoking not that bad.

https://www.reuters.com/business/instagram-shows-more-eating...

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Let's see the data, please. This is from your own link:

> The researchers stressed that their findings did not prove that Instagram was making users feel worse about their bodies. “It is not possible to establish the causal direction of these findings,” they wrote, noting the possibility that teens who felt bad about themselves could be actively seeking out that material.

Should we ban libraries because someone who is depressed might seek out a Sylvia Plath book?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/instagram-shows-more-eating...

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