Forbes health contributor Nicole Fisher cites the We the Internet TV mini-doc, How Instagram Hacks Your Brain, in her recent column on the effects of social media on today’s youth. 

Does spending 6-10 hours a day on social media cause anxiety and depression? Could the onslaught of perfectly filtered images and algorithmically contrived pleasure be causing irreversible psychological damage? Rob Montz explores these questions and more in the mini-doc above, arguing that social media apps such as Instagram engineer addiction. 

Watch more videos from We the Internet TV’s mini-documentary series here.