Your child vs doomscrolling: How bottomless feeds impact schoolkids

Lack of sleep, self-doubt, cyberbullying - we all know the risks of social media for teens, but what does research tell us about who is most at risk and to what degree the state needs to step in to help them. — Photo: Elisa Schu/dpa

HAMBURG: Whether TikTok, Instagram and other platforms are as dangerous as alcohol or tobacco is a question now putting Meta and Google on trial in the United States, putting TikTok under pressure in the EU and being debated by governments around the world.

Researchers have long examined what happens when children and teenagers spend large parts of their day working their way through bottomless timelines. Here are some of the most important findings on doomscrolling.