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  4. UntestedExpert Opinion

    The experimental evidence available by 2024 strengthens the conclusion that causal evidence linking algorithmic curation specifically to mass polarization is limited.

    [NARROW-VARIANT] Tucker et al. (2018) reviewed the scientific literature and concluded that causal evidence linking algorithmic curation specifically to mass polarization is mixed and limited. The review found that while social media exposure correlates with polarization-related outcomes, the causal contribution of al…

    Strongest counter:none on file
    Cited by:none on file yet
  5. Tested · SurvivedExpert Opinion

    The empirical association between adolescent social media use and mental health outcomes is small and methodologically fragile; the evidence does not warrant attributing the post-2012 youth mental health decline principally to smartphones,…

    Odgers and her co-authors have spent more than a decade working directly with the kind of datasets and analytic methods this debate hinges on, and they keep arriving at the same conclusion: the associations are real but small, the methods are more fragile than the popular synthesis lets on, and the cross-national timi…

    Strongest counter:Smartphone-based social media is the principal cause of the rise in adolescent depression, anxiety, and self-harm seen across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and the Nordic countries since roughly…
    Cited by 3· 1 contestWhat makes this case stronger than a typical "X happened, then Y happened" story is that three patterns line up on the same hypothesis, and…