Summary
Social media is often blamed for making mental well-being worse for adults. We have a general understanding of how platform design and use patterns can cause these problems. However, there is still much to learn about the mechanisms by which social media use affects well-being and what people and platforms can do to make things better. This project addresses these challenges by developing better models of how people use and respond to social media content, along with new AI-driven technologies that improve platform design and the algorithms that choose what, when, and how to show content to us
