Meta and Center for Open Science Open Request for Proposals for Research on Social Media and Youth Well-being Using Instagram Data

Meta and the Center for Open Science (COS) opened a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a new pilot program, designed to support the study of topics related to social media use and well-being. This pilot program addresses calls for more research on the impact of social media on well-being, including from the National Academies of Sciences Study Consensus Report on Social Media and Adolescent Health. This program will provide privacy-preserving access to data from Instagram users in a new model for industry-academic collaboration. This program presents a model for industry-academia partnerships on this important issue, using a process popularized in the open science movement, called a Registered Report, which requires preregistration of hypotheses and early peer review of research designs.