{"id":363,"date":"2023-08-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/?p=363"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:52:08","slug":"measuring-social-media-impacts-on-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsequences.org\/podcasts\/2023\/08\/measuring-social-media-impacts-on-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring social media impacts on mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Guest:<\/strong> Nathaniel Lubin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2021, Whistleblower Frances Haugen\u2014a former member of the Civic Integrity team at Meta\u2014shared a cache of more than 1,300 documents that would come to be known collectively as the Facebook Papers<\/em>.\u00a0 A key takeaway from Frances Haugen\u2019s testimony to Congress in 2022 was that Meta executives were aware of the real-world harms of their product, and yet did little to nothing to avert it.\u00a0 Yet despite the Facebook Papers, the reality is that we know very little about the exact impact of product design decisions made by social media companies on social harms such as mental health or even incitement to violence.\u00a0 In other words, we do not have standardized processes for evaluating product changes for societal harms, nor do we have metrics that can adequately measure, trend, compare and contrast harms across various social media.\u00a0 We also lack mechanisms to separate causation from correlation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join us for a conversation with Nathaniel Lubin, a \u201cRebooting Social Media\u201d or RSM fellow at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Klein Center, as we discuss whether the emergence of such transparent processes could help us build or reform these systems to preserve the positive impacts while mitigate the societal harms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosted by:<\/strong> Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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