Instagram impacts teen mental health in the West. What about in the platform’s largest market, India?
For this story, I conducted a full independent review of the Facebook Papers leak in the fall of 2021. Despite expansive studies on the effect of Instagram on teen mental health in the U.S. and the U.K., our reporting found a dearth of investment from Facebook into studying Instagram’s effect on teens in the Global South. This included Instagram’s largest market in the world, India. The story asks why there has been so little scholarly research on this topic and how it may bias our understandings of the mental health effects of social media usage.
November 2021, Rest of World
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