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UNC News The study provides some of the first findings about social media’s possible consequences on the development of adolescent brains.

Carolina Alumni Review A $10 million gift from the Winston Family Foundation will fund a research center at UNC to examine the long-term effects of technology and social media use on teen social and emotional development.

Chapelboro.com (Chapel Hill, NC) UNC is creating a new research center to examine long-term effects of technology and social media on social and emotional development.

Philanthropy News Digest The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced a $10 million gift from the Winston Family Foundation to establish a center that will examine the long-term effects of technology and social media use on teen social and emotional development.

Spectrum News (Raleigh, NC) A wave of funding is now flowing into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study the impact of social media and technology on teenagers’ brains.

UNC News Gift builds on three years of emerging research focused on link between technology use and teen mental health.

Triangle Business Journal (Raleigh, NC) A $10 million gift to UNC-Chapel Hill is supporting research into the long-term effects of technology and social media on teenagers.

WCNC (Charlotte, NC) The center will help create more tools for parents, caregivers and teens to make better informed choices about how they interact with technology and social media.

Forbes As Facebook morphs into a corporate pinata, increasingly loathed on both the left and right over its seemingly blithe regard for accuracy, democracy and the self-worth of girls, Jim Winston, the son of the late founder of a sizable family foundation, is quietly opening a multiplatform front against the social media giant, focusing on the effect such platforms have on adolescent brains.