Here’s How the Media Turns Research Into Misleading Clickbait

Nir Eyal
3 min readNov 6, 2020
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Here’s a fact that probably won’t surprise you:

Exposure to social media has a negative effect on teen depression.

Now, here’s a fact that probably will surprise you:

According to a leading researcher, “eating potatoes has the exact same negative effect.”

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Nir Eyal

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