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Social Media/AI Use Effects on Mental Health to Include Online Harassment

  1. Matsakis, L. (2025, Oct 27) OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-psychosis-and-self-harm-update/
  2. Hengesbach, E. (2025, Oct 23) I tried out an AI chatbot therapist. Here’s what I saw, PIRG, https://pirg.org/articles/i-tried-out-an-ai-chatbot-therapist-heres-what-i-saw/
  3. Greenberg, G. (2025, Sep 27) Putting ChatGPT on the Couch, When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us., The New Yorker,  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/putting-chatgpt-on-the-couch
  4. Feely, C. (2025, Aug 24) Truth, Romance and the Divine: How AI Chatbots May Fuel Psychotic Thinking, Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ai-chatbots-may-be-fueling-psychotic-episodes/
  5. Dignum, V.;Ericson, P.; Tucker, J. (2025, Sep 17) AI Chatbots Are Not Therapists. Reducing Harm Requires Regulation, Tech Policy Press, https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-chatbots-are-not-therapists-reducing-harm-requires-regulation/?ref=dispatch.techoversight.org
  6. Hill, K. & Freedman, D. (2025, Aug 8) Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
  7. Hart, R. (2025, Aug 5), Chatbots Can Trigger a Mental Health Crisis. What to Know About ‘AI Psychosis’, Time, https://time.com/7307589/ai-psychosis-chatgpt-mental-health/
  8. Alter, C. (2025, Aug 4)  Inside the Parent-Led Movement For Phone-Free Schools, Time https://time.com/7307163/parent-movement-phone-free-schools/?_bhlid=b5760ade4572797bd947c2e1ce425b6044ab6afc
  9. Bellan, R. (2025, July 3) Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first, TechCrunch, https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/meta-has-found-another-way-to-keep-you-engaged-chatbots-that-message-you-first/
  10. Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (2025, Jun 11), Exploring the Dangers of AI in Mental Health Care, https://hai.stanford.edu/news/exploring-the-dangers-of-ai-in-mental-health-care
  11. Dupre, MH (2025, Jun 28) People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis", Futurism,  https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis
  12. Hill, K. (2025, June 13) They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html
  13. Stanford Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (2025, Jun 11) Exploring the Dangers of AI in Mental Health Care, https://hai.stanford.edu/news/exploring-the-dangers-of-ai-in-mental-health-care
  14. Kos'myna, N. (2025, June 10) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task , mit media lab, https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
  15. Field, M. (2025, May 07) Mark Zuckerberg made us lonelier. Now he wants us to be friends with AI, The Telegraph, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/07/mark-zuckerberg-made-us-all-lonelier-wants-friends-ai/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first
  16. Klee, M. (2025, May 4) They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.VBY-.s76GQpFar8r4&referringSource=articleShare
  17. Maiberg, E. (2025, May 6) Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X, 404media.co, https://www.404media.co/elon-musks-grok-ai-will-remove-her-clothes-in-public-on-x/
  18. Hawkins, W., Russell C., Mittelstadt B. (2025, May 6) Deepfakes on Demand: the rise of accessible non-consensual deepfake image generators, https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03859
  19. Moore, J. et al (2025, Apr 25) Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers, Cornell University, https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412
  20. StudyFinds Staff (2025, Apr 11) Falling for Machines: The Growing World of Human-AI Romance, StudyFinds, https://studyfinds.org/falling-for-machines-the-growing-world-of-human-ai-romance/
  21. Hale, R., & Bravo, V. (2025, Feb 25), What is sextortion? This fast-growing crime targets teen boys. Here's what to do about it, USA Today, https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/02/25/sextortion-can-happen-to-anyone-what-to-do-if-youre-a-victim/79454630007/
  22. Aubrey, A. (2025, Feb 24) A break from your smartphone can reboot your mood.  Here's how long you need, USA Today, https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5304417/smartphone-break-digital-detox-screen-addiction
  23. Lytton, C (2025, Feb 13) ‘I was being groomed to rape’: The young men being taught to hate women, The Telegraph,https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/13/i-was-groomed-to-rape-by-online-incels/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first
  24. Guo, E (2025, Feb 6) An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it, MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/06/1111077/nomi-ai-chatbot-told-user-to-kill-himself/
  25. Bernardi, J. (2025, Jan 23), Friends for sale: the rise and risks of AI companions, Ada Lovelace Institute,  https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/ai-companions/
  26. Kayyali, D. (2025, Jan 9), Meta's Content Moderation Changes are Going to Have a Real World Impact. It's Not Going to be Good, Tech Policy.Press, https://www.techpolicy.press/metas-content-moderation-changes-are-going-to-have-a-real-world-impact-its-not-going-to-be-good/
  27. Luyken, J. (2024, Dec 19), Telegram ‘rape chat groups’ with up to 70,000 members uncovered, The Telegraph, https://www.yahoo.com/news/telegram-rape-chat-groups-70-142422399.html
  28. Busby, M. (2024, Dec 17), Drug Dealers Have Moved on to Social Media, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/drug-dealers-have-move
  29. Boburg, S., Dehghanpoor, C. (2024, Dec 10), He was suicidal and needed help. Online predators pushed him to take his life on camera and-onto-social-media, Washington Post, https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/10/he-was-suicidal-and-needed-help-online-predators-pushed-him-to-take-his-life-on-camera/76898462007/
  30. Clark, A. & Mahtani, M/ (2024, Nov 14) Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die.", CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-message-human-please-die/
  31. Chen, B. (2024, Nov 10), How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/technology/personaltech/technology-loneliness.html
  32. Yang, A. (2024, Oct 23), Lawsuit claims Character.AI is responsible for teen's suicide, NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/characterai-lawsuit-florida-teen-death-rcna176791After
  33. Harrison Dupre, M. (2024, Oct 29) After Teen's Suicide, Character.AI Is Still Hosting Dozens of Suicide-Themed Chatbots, Futurism.com,  https://futurism.com/suicide-chatbots-character-ai
  34. Mahari, R & Pataranutaporn, P (2024, Aug 5) We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’, MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/05/1095600/we-need-to-prepare-for-addictive-intelligence/
  35. Orenstein, P. (2024, Apr 12), The Troubling Trend in Teenage Sex, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opinion/choking-teen-sex-brain-damage.html
  36. Hunter, T. (2023, Apr 11), They left social media for good. Are they happier?, The Washington Post, https://wapo.st/3UxkBfO
  37. Xiang, C. (2023, March 30), 'He Would Still Be Here': Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says, Motherboard Tech By Vice, https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says
  38. Oliver, D. (2023, Mar 28) Feeling like you've been subtly tricked? It might be 'ambient gaslighting', USA Today, https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2023/03/28/ambient-gaslighting-manipulation-definition-explained/11514894002/
  39. Benson, T. (2022, Oct 3), The High Cost of Living Your Life Online, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/privacy-psychology-social-media/
  40. Romero, A. (2022, Jul 15), TikTok Is the Perfect Social Media — Here’s Why You Should Delete It, Medium,  https://albertoromgar.medium.com/tiktok-is-the-perfect-social-media-heres-why-you-should-delete-it-5ae60596a389
  41. Mozilla, (2022, May 2), Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail Spectacularly at Privacy, Security, https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/top-mental-health-and-prayer-apps-fail-spectacularly-at-privacy-security/
  42. Lorenz, T. & Dwoskin, E. (2022, Apr 6), Some women shared the messages they get on Instagram. It’s not pretty, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/06/instagram-women-harassment/
  43. Jankowicz, Nina (2022, Jan 21), The Internet is Failing Moms-to-Be, Wired,  https://www.wired.com/story/pregnancy-apps-disinformation/
  44. Bak-Coleman, J. (2021, Nov 24), The thousands of vulnerable people harmed by Facebook and Instagram are lost in Meta's "average user" data, The Conversation,  https://theconversation.com/the-thousands-of-vulnerable-people-harmed-by-facebook-and-instagram-are-lost-in-metas-average-user-data-172119
  45. Thompson, D. (2021, Sep 17), Social Media Is Attention Alcohol, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/social-media-attention-alcohol-booze-instagram-twitter/620101/
  46. Laidlaw, K. (2021, Sep 9), Rain Boots, Turning Tides, and the Search for a Missing Boy, Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/search-missing-boy-dylan-ehler-nova-scotia/
  47. Flanagan, C. (2021, July 5), You Really Need to Quit Twitter, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/twitter-addict-realizes-she-needs-rehab/619343/
  48. Lembke, A. (2021, Aug 13),  Digital Addictions Are Drowning Us in Dopamine, The Wall Street Journal,  https://www.wsj.com/articles/digital-addictions-are-drowning-us-in-dopamine-11628861572
  49. Tech Transparency Project (TTP) Investigation: YouTube Fails to Remove Vaccine Conspiracies, (2021, June 1),  https://mailchi.mp/4b3e3cfa0371/ttp-investigation-youtube-fails-to-remove-vaccine-conspiracies?e=64cdb2dcb6
  50. Hilditch, C. (2021, Jan 23), Technology Will Destroy Us, National Review  https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/technology-will-destroy-us/
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  52. What To Do When Your Child Cyberbullies Others: Top Ten Tips for Parents, Cyberbullying Research Center, https://cyberbullying.org/what-to-do-when-your-child-cyberbullies-others
  53. The Science Behind Suicide and Diseases of the Mind, https://sciencebehindsuicideandmentalhealthconditions.com/
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  55. Alderman, L. (2017, May 2), The Phones We Love Too Much, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/well/mind/the-phones-we-love-too-much.html
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