NEW YORK ¨C Would you be better off without Facebook? Would society benefit, too?
A team of economists, led by Hunt Allcott of New York University, has just produced the most impressive research to date on these questions.
In general, the researchers¡¯ findings are not good news for Facebook and its users. Getting off the platform appears to increase people¡¯s well-being ¡ª and significantly decrease political polarization.
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