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This doesn't make sense. Forbidding social media is as stupid as forbidding video games, it's old people not trying to find the real cause and instead passing measures which will be completely useless. Social media doesn't necessarily mean Meta
You're saying that social media is not the real cause of the youth mental health crisis? Do you propose a different cause? Because I know of a good few, very well-qualified people (of varying ages) that might explicitly disagree with you...
What mental health crisis?
The one you're too lazy to search?
You're the one bringing a fact, you're the one supposed to source it. Anyway, your source doesn't talk about any increase of prevalence, how can we know there's a crisis from your source? Could be just that we diagnose more cases these times (or even the same digits, since we don't have evolution data in your source). Even worse: your source literally state Digital media as a means of preventing mental health issues by spreading educative content. Nowhere does your source state that digital media is THE cause of the young mental health "crisis".