The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health: Key Insights

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1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   3 corrections applied: The warning-label proposal was made in a June 2024 op-ed, not an August 2023 advisory. | Study was published in 2022 and is a natural experiment, not an RCT. | Instagram and its like feature launched in October 2010, not 2011.

   Before

   In August 2023, a US Surgeon General advisory called for a warning label on social media... A 2023 RCT by Luca Braghieri, Ro'ee Levy, and Alexey Makarin... the introduction of the Instagram "like" button in 2011 and Snapchat's launch...

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   In June 2024, the US Surgeon General called for a warning label on social media... A 2022 study by Luca Braghieri, Ro'ee Levy, and Alexey Makarin... the introduction of the Instagram "like" button in 2010 and Snapchat's launch...

   Why: Verified live: all three corrections are already present in body text (June 2024 Surgeon General timing, 2022 natural-experiment study framing for Braghieri/Levy/Makarin, and 2010 for the Instagram like button). FAQ field checked (decoded via base64/json/base64/json) - a separate, legitimate FAQ entry about best-controlled studies cites different real research (Hunt et al. 2018 RCT, Orben & Przybylski 2019) unrelated to this contribution's fabrication, and does not contain the corrected/unverified details in scope here. No action required this pass; confirming the existing correct state.

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