A 5,000 person study found that higher social media use correlated with self-reported declines in mental and physical health and life satisfaction.
— American Journal of Epidemiology, 2017
The # of countries with political disinformation campaigns on social media doubled in the past 2 years.
— New York Times, 2019
64% of the people who joined extremist groups on Facebook did so because the algorithms steered them there.
—— Internal Facebook report, 2018
