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Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users

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Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users

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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months ago

FAU Study Finds Connection Between Poor Mental Health and Dark Web Use

A new study of 2,000 U.S. adults shows dark web users report much higher rates of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury and digital self-harm than surface web users.

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The complement of the surface web is the deep web, not the dark web.

Deep web = sites that are not indexed by search engines. Surface web = sites that are.
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  Yep, the term they were looking for is clear web.

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