The Evidence Record

The Evidence Record

• Social Media and Youth Mental Health

  Government Record · 2023

  Office of the U.S. Surgeon General

  The U.S. Surgeon General's 2023 advisory page on social media and youth mental health: it says we cannot yet conclude social media is safe enough for…

• Spotify Support: Autoplay

  Document · 2026

  Spotify Support

  Spotify Support: when an album or playlist ends, Autoplay keeps going with similar songs "so the music never stops."

• Stanford: Alex Stamos Biography (2026)

  Document

  Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

  Stanford University biography: Alex Stamos was Yahoo's chief information security officer before joining Facebook. This contradicts claims that he went straight from a government intelligence job…

• Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent

  News Report · 2014

  Nick Bilton

  Bilton reports that he asked Jobs in late 2010 whether his children loved the iPad. Walter Isaacson separately described device-free family dinners, but that does not…

• Stipulated Order for Civil Penalty, Monetary Judgment, and Injunctive Relief, United States v. Facebook, Inc.

  Court Filing · 2019

  U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

  The filed stipulated order imposed a $5 billion civil penalty and extensive privacy obligations. Facebook neither admitted nor denied the complaint allegations except as specifically stated…

• Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction, Monetary Judgment, and Other Relief, United States v. Ring LLC

  Court Filing · 2023

  U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

  The entered order requires deletion, privacy and security measures, access restrictions, monitoring, and a $5.8 million judgment.

• Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media Per Day

  Document · 2023

  Gallup

  Gallup’s June–July 2023 survey reported 4.8 hours across seven platforms, including 1.9 hours on YouTube and 1.5 on TikTok. Averages ranged from 4.1 hours at age…

• The Association Between Adolescent Well-Being and Digital Technology Use

  Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019

  Amy Orben and Andrew K. Przybylski

  Specification curve analysis across three large social datasets, total n=355,358, found a small negative association. The analysis is correlational rather than a causal detox experiment.

• The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2021

  Document · 2022

  Victoria Rideout, Alanna Peebles, Supreet Mann, and Michael B. Robb

  Entertainment screen use averaged 5:33 for ages 8–12 and 8:39 for ages 13–18. Social-media time was 18 minutes and 1:27 respectively. YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch were…

• The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress

  Peer-Reviewed Study · 2008

  Gloria Mark, Daniela Gudith, and Ulrich Klocke

  The peer-reviewed experiment found interrupted tasks completed faster without quality loss, but with greater stress, frustration, time pressure, and effort.

• The Earth Charter (2000)

  Document · 2000

  Earth Charter Commission

  The Earth Charter's final 2000 text. Among its principles: genetic information of vital importance to health should remain in the public domain.

• The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025

  Nassen et al.

  Ten studies, N=4,674 and 38 effect sizes, produced nonsignificant pooled results: positive affect g=0.03, negative affect g=−0.01, and life satisfaction g=0.03. Interventions were mostly short, adult-only,…

• The Great Reset: A Unique Twin Summit to Begin 2021 (WEF, 2020)

  Document · 2020

  World Economic Forum

  The World Economic Forum's June 3, 2020 announcement of the Great Reset by Klaus Schwab and the then Prince of Wales, framed around a new social…

• The Matrix (1999): release record

  Document · 1999

  Rotten Tomatoes

  Catalog record: The Matrix released March 31, 1999.

• The Power of Play: A Pediatric Role in Enhancing Development in Young Children

  Document · 2018

  Michael Yogman et al.; American Academy of Pediatrics

  The report says randomized trials of physical play in 7- to 9-year-olds showed enhanced attentional inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and brain functioning. It also supplies a 25%…

• The Power of the Like in Adolescence: Effects of Peer Influence on Neural and Behavioral Responses to Social Media

  Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016

  Lauren E. Sherman et al.

  The simulated Instagram fMRI experiment found that many versus few Likes influenced adolescents’ behavior and neural responses to photographs.

• The Senior Advisory Group Panel on Commercially Available Information: Declassified Report

  Government Record · 2022

  ODNI Senior Advisory Group

  The report documents intelligence-community acquisition of commercially available personal information, including detailed location-related data, without the process that compelled acquisition might require.

• The Transhumanist Declaration (Humanity+)

  Document · 2009

  World Transhumanist Association / Humanity+

  The Transhumanist Declaration, first written in 1998 and adopted in its current form in 2009, envisions overcoming aging, cognitive shortcomings, involuntary suffering and our confinement to…

• The Welfare Effects of Social Media

  Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020

  Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, and Matthew Gentzkow

  The randomized experiment found reduced online activity, more offline activity, lower factual news knowledge and polarization, increased subjective well-being, and persistent reduced Facebook use after four…

• Too Many Interruptions at Work?

  News Report · 2006

  Gallup Business Journal interview with Gloria Mark

  The interview supplies 23 minutes 15 seconds as average elapsed time to resume interrupted work.

• Treasury Fact Sheet: The Administration’s Proposed Financial Account Reporting Requirements

  Government Record · 2021

  U.S. Department of the Treasury

  Treasury expressly rejected individual-transaction reporting and described a revised $10,000 total annual-flow exclusion, with wage/salary earners and federal-program beneficiaries carved out.

• Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Nonfatal Self-inflicted Injuries Among Youth Aged 10 to 24 Years in the United States, 2001-2015

  Peer-Reviewed Study · 2017

  Melissa C. Mercado et al.

  For girls aged 10–14, emergency-department self-inflicted-injury rates rose from 119.4 per 100,000 in 2001 to 317.7 in 2015, with an 18.8% annual percentage change during 2009–2015.

• TuneCore and GrimesAI: 50 Percent Royalty Split (2023)

  Corporate Filing · 2023

  TuneCore / CreateSafe / Grimes

  TuneCore, June 2023: artists can release songs made with Grimes's AI voice clone, with a 50 percent royalty split to Grimes.

• UN Global Sustainable Development Report 2019

  Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019

  Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General

  The UN scientists' 2019 report calls governance an essential lever of the systemic transformations needed to reach all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.