Social media 'well down the list' of factors impacting youth mental health, experts say

A blanket ban on social media use for under-16s is “overly restrictive” and lets big tech firms off the hook for harm that happens on their platforms, experts have said.

The experts from the Universities of Limerick and Galway said there was very little evidence social media leads to a decline in wellbeing for young people. Social media companies must be held to account and make their data available for researchers, they said.

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