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Meta hid proof of mental health effects of social media, claim US court documents
Hindustan Times Navi Mumbai
|November 24, 2025
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by US school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.
In a 2020 project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of “deactivating” Facebook, according to Meta documents. “People who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and
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