It will offer “a critical window into Big Tech’s impact on the nation’s young people,” Sen. Markey said.
Researchers scrutinizing how social media impacts children’s health recently got a key assist as lawmakers tucked fresh funding for the cause into theirFederal appropriators this year re-upped $15 million in funding for a program directing the National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services to lead studies examining technology’s impact on children’s development and mental health.
“It’s a tiny sum of money in the scope of the federal budget, but it will be used to investigate a matter that is of the utmost concern to families across America,” Raskin told me Wednesday. There are also questions about the longevity of the program, which requires lawmakers to appropriate new funds annually to keep it afloat.
The push to probe potential links between youth mental health and social media comes as lawmakers forge ahead with sweeping new proposals, from expanding guardrails for children online to restricting their access to platforms altogether.
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