Social media harm abatement: Mechanisms for transparent public health assessment

"Should these cases reach a settlement or a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs, a judge may use this approach as a base template to be updated with the specifics of any case." Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin and Amanda Yarnell, alongside a multidisciplinary team, propose a court-enforceable mechanism to assess and mitigate social media harms through internal platform data and external public health evaluations—focusing particularly on youth wellbeing and long-term accountability.

Read more in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.