Specifically, this one:

Melissa G. Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson, and Jordyn Young (2018). No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. free preprint on Researchgate.

For quite awhile I've had a recurring desire to start a blog that was just me reading whatever scientific study was hitting the mainstream media that week, summarizing/analyzing the paper for a layperson's perspective, and then pointing out what the media coverage should have been saying instead. I tried doing this on a tumblr sideblog for awhile; what I always forget is that it takes a long time to do. Even if I pick a simple paper that's available open access or preprint, isn't super long or technical, don't look up any of the citations, and just accept any math I can't figure out, it still takes more free time than I seem to consistently have these days (I say, as I look down my long trail of excessively long journal entries from this week...)

But this paper - about how social media is very bad for your psychological health - hit the media a few weeks ago, and the coverage made me so mad I either had to write this up or stew over it all night silently instead, and it seemed like a topic y'all would be interested in, so here we go, let's do this!

Abstract:
Introduction:
Given the breadth of correlational research linking social media use to worse well-being, we undertook an experimental study to investigate the potential causal role that social media plays in this relationship.
Method:
After a week of baseline monitoring, 143 undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania were randomly assigned to either limit Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat use to 10 minutes, per platform, per day, or to use social media as usual for three weeks.
Results:
The limited use group showed significant reductions in loneliness and depression over three weeks compared to the control group. Both groups showed significant decreases in anxiety and fear of missing out over baseline, suggesting a benefit of increased self-monitoring.
Discussion:
Our findings strongly suggest that limiting social media use to approximately 30 minutes per day may lead to significant improvement in well-being

Okay, let's go down the actual paper point-by-point, looking at what they're actually doing here. You may want to pull up the paper I have linked above and read along, it's pretty readable as these go, but you should be able to follow along without that.

( Methods )
( Results )

( Analysis )

...so that is what I do whenever I see a "new scientific study" being reported in the media. It is probably something you could learn to do as well! Even if you don't want to make a hobby of it as I have, it's useful to remember that pretty much any scientific study that is supposed to be giving "amazing new results" is really just somebody saying "I tried a thing and this result looks kind of interesting and maybe worth following up but I dunno really," only with stats, and with grant money on the line.

I leave this study apparently claiming that women think with their wombs for someone else to analyze. :P