A new Pew survey and a viral Stanford study are being used to suggest social media barely harms teenagers. The numbers in both are smaller than the headlines suggest — and neither has access to the data that would settle the question.That data does exist, however. It's just inside Meta's servers. NYU researchers have now catalogued 35 internal Meta studies from whistleblowers and litigation discovery. What those studies found — 13% of 13-to-15-year-olds reporting weekly unwanted sexual advances, one in three teen girls experiencing worse body image, Mark Zuckerberg noting internally that "3 percent of billions of people is a lot of people" — is different in kind from what external academics can measure.The external science isn't weak because researchers aren't trying. It's limited because the companies won't share the data. And the companies cite that limited external science in their own defense.For written reports, including all the source documents, please become a subscriber at https://theripcurrent.com.