Teenage boys show major declines in suicide across the globe as their social media use grew
83% of countries with reliable reporting show plunging suicide rates by teenage boys as social media proliferated.
https://mikemales.substack.com/p/teenage-boys-show-major-declines
Taylor Lorenz
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