{"id":78661,"date":"2026-09-14T06:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/zuckerberg-says-the-science-isnt-settled-but-the-harms-of-short-form-video-on-the-brain-are-starting-to-show-caty-enders\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:55:32","slug":"zuckerberg-says-the-science-isnt-settled-but-the-harms-of-short-form-video-on-the-brain-are-starting-to-show-caty-enders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/zuckerberg-says-the-science-isnt-settled-but-the-harms-of-short-form-video-on-the-brain-are-starting-to-show-caty-enders\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg says the science isn\u2019t settled. But the harms of short-form video on the brain are starting to show | Caty Enders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent social media lawsuits have addressed concerns about mental health. But what about its cognitive effects?<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, when I\u2019d just started graduate work, I was waiting with a grandmother finishing a questionnaire I\u2019d handed her about her 19-year-old granddaughter who was in the testing room next door. They were participating in a study that used brain imaging to look at adolescent development. The older woman had a soft southern accent and a warm laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s funny?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/sep\/14\/zuckerberg-short-form-video-cognitive-harm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent social media lawsuits have addressed concerns about mental health. But what about its cognitive effects? A few years ago, when I\u2019d just started graduate work, I was waiting with a grandmother finishing a questionnaire I\u2019d handed her about her 19-year-old granddaughter who was in the testing room next door. They were participating in a &#8230; <a title=\"Zuckerberg says the science isn\u2019t settled. But the harms of short-form video on the brain are starting to show | Caty Enders\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/zuckerberg-says-the-science-isnt-settled-but-the-harms-of-short-form-video-on-the-brain-are-starting-to-show-caty-enders\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Zuckerberg says the science isn\u2019t settled. But the harms of short-form video on the brain are starting to show | Caty Enders\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}