{"id":976149,"date":"2025-11-24T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976149"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:51:31","slug":"us-court-filings-show-meta-buried-evidence-that-linked-instagram-and-facebook-to-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/24\/us-court-filings-show-meta-buried-evidence-that-linked-instagram-and-facebook-to-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"US Court filings show Meta buried evidence that linked Instagram and Facebook to harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users\u2019 mental health, according to unredacted filings in a class action by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms. <\/p>\n<p>In a 2020 research project code-named \u201cProject Mercury,\u201d Meta scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of \u201cdeactivating\u201d Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users\u2019 mental health, according to unredacted filings in a class action by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms. In a 2020 research project code-named \u201cProject Mercury,\u201d Meta scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of \u201cdeactivating\u201d Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}