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Newly unsealed court filings reveal that Meta quietly ended Project Mercury, an internal study showing that users who took a break from Facebook felt less anxious and socially pressured. The disclosures — part of a sweeping US lawsuit targeting multiple social platforms — raises questions over whether tech giants withheld evidence of potential mental-health risks to young users
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