Researchers paid people to log off Facebook and Instagram before the election. Here’s what happened.
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Researchers paid people to log off Facebook and Instagram before the election. Here’s what happened.
In the lead up to the 2020 election, researchers paid tens of thousands of people who used Facebook or Instagram for more than 15 minutes a day to log off. It was a test to see the apps’ effects on users’ political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior, and in a surprise to no one who’s seen the brains of people they went to high school with melted by the sludge on Mark Zuckerberg’s attention machines, deactivating for a few weeks did indeed have some sway over some of the participants.