This page contains links to articles and papers exploring the risks of ‘screentime’ and social media and the lack of data and evidence supporting its purported impact on mental health, particularly children and young people:

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? (nature.com)

OII | Study finds screen time – even before bed – has little impact on teen well-being (ox.ac.uk)

Do smartphones really cause mental illness among adolescents? Ten problems with Jonathan Haidt’s book – Parenting for a Digital Future (lse.ac.uk)

Focus on teen social media use obscuring this key cause of depression (sfchronicle.com)