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Pop Star Selena Gomez: Social Media Has Been ‘Terrible’ For My Generation

Emily Zanotti

Pop star — and now movie star — Selena Gomez told a panel at the Cannes Film Festival that she believes social media has been a “terrible” development for her generation, and that social networks are contributing to a decline in mental health among young people.

The New York Daily News reports that Gomez, who is in Cannes, France, promoting the zombie apocalypse horror flick, “The Dead Don’t Die,” which officially opened the festival, told a press conference that social media has destroyed young lives, particularly young girls’ lives.

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