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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.

Sec. Human Developmental Psychology

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1523649

This article is part of the Research TopicChildren's Health and Screen TimeView all 22 articles

Normalising Toxicity: The role of recommender algorithms for young people's mental health and social wellbeing

Provisionally accepted
  • 1University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
  • 2University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

This paper explores how social media recommenda

Keywords: Misogyny, Social Media, algorithm analysis, Mental Health, neurodiversity, Digital Literacy

Received: 06 Nov 2024; Accepted: 11 Aug 2025.

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* Correspondence: Kaitlyn Regehr, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, England, United Kingdom

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