Evidence base
Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge
The Evidence: Collaborative Review Documents on Adolescent Mental Health and Social Media
What it found
This is a set of open, collaboratively maintained review documents assembled by Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge, compiling studies on the relationship between social media use and adolescent mental health. The documents include dissenting evidence alongside studies supporting a causal link, rather than presenting a single settled position.
Why it matters for practice
Because the compilers are prominent advocates for the causal link between social media and adolescent mental health, this should be read as an argument-in-progress from interested parties rather than an independent synthesis; its value lies in surfacing dissenting studies you can check against their framing, not in resolving the debate.