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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, social media and teenagers.

Dr. Jaron Budak is an associate professor in the School of Information

at the University of Michigan. She recently served on a consensus committee of the National

Academies of Science and Engineering in Medicine entitled Social Media and Adolescent Health.

She speaks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the committee's findings that there is

not adequate evidence to find an effect of social media on adolescent health at the population

level, as well as the finding that social media companies need to do much more to participate

in research on the impact on teenagers. Let's listen.

Dr. Jaron Budak, thank you so much for joining me at Public Health on Call to talk about this

report from the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine on social media and

teen mental health.

Thank you very much, Ash.

I'm looking forward to the conversation.

Now, this is a topic that has been quite in the news.

We're talking just days after big congressional hearing,

where senators were very critical of some of the social media company's leaders.

And the CEO of META, Mark Zuckerberg, apologized to families in a dramatic moment.

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