{"id":504224,"date":"2026-06-17T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:12:09","slug":"what-we-actually-know-about-youth-mental-health-and-social-media-use-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504224\/","title":{"rendered":"What we actually know about youth mental health and social media use &#8211; The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNbU9Wd3JId0FXRmRhQVJGNzlLT3k1VVZvRVRLRnM1N0MwWUVMWEZVeEM1YWdGOUNMVzViWUlfc1pPbWRDT3JjWVZsSVVmTzVtNHUyaFN0N0lOSHNMT1ZnN0h1NlRIcnZLd3A2alJmMUEyMm9YQVNtU25pVVl0czdnYXA5OGNFMHpwMjZIbHlzTGF3Q0UySVE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What we actually know about youth mental health and social media use<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxNalRfOUt2STZrTHRWeUVMQXUzRUtMLWVnX1BfcW1ZR2JQY2Y2bEhoWk9kTjM3YmRDbUwxUGVlaWxXTDlqUEdGRmVPTmhGTTlRdkx0cV9FTEJYYWpjeGdZYnJFbksxWFZqUnZrV0ZUVEd2UDNmY3lCUUl1MFpNeFhuR2lhelBBZDIwSWlMMFRDU1dGb1dVUGhPVlBFbHQ5SHYtMW5zTXU5Y2R0a2xNaEdqM2lTS1lmUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Does Social Media Truly Destroy Teen Mental Health? The Evidence Remains Fractured<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;streamlinefeed.co.ke<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihgFBVV95cUxOdllnVkhQNzNqM0RRRjNlMWlla1F0bFVWaE1lc1Iwamh0V1NqdEljOEJHTlpnYUZ0TFNMNXhnYUlaX2RydTNPWVVfSjRYcjZIc3B2MG1jOXFuNHZndVdXS2JQWVdjbUlIZDdzb2wxTUYzWEN4VGRZS0NjYzBUeEhVa016TFlnZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social Media And Teenagers: What The Evidence Says<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Mena FN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxPVm9vSUJ2QzFUQjJSMllwSXVnOWRJdE5TNEZmNk9lYmVXSHFHNGVtTk9uODFjSEJNRFZveTVZRUF0WmRneGhKNVBwRUhXNkxyR2k1UE5UcFN1cGVqNWJmTF9Nb2daTGlYNkg3bEhDOUh4YWZLR0hOSTIwWExDVTdyUE1WaGZNamVxeWh3SFVTNXNXdTFKUWxvVERjd09id0VjQjFIU2VQdFNrUXV5TEVQM1A2SXE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kids on social media more than two hours a day at higher risk of mental illness<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Conversation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we actually know about youth mental health and social media use&nbsp;&nbsp;The IndependentDoes Social Media Truly Destroy Teen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-504224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}