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Created a fake account. my office and i did, as a teen interested in extreme dieting and eating disorders. instagram latched on to that teenagers initial insecurities and then pushed more content and recommendations. f glorifying eating disorders. thats how instagrams algorithms can push teens into darker and darker places. facebooks own researchers called it instagrams quote, perfect storm. exacerbating downward spirals. facebook, as you have put it so powerfully, maximizes profits and ignores ...

Lawmakers, one of them senator amy coney barrett. she said facebooks own research shows it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest but the company hides what it knows. she described the financial incentives for not changing the algorithm which prioritizes extreme content because that gets more clicks and more eyeballs and for longer. haugen talked about how facebooks instagram can harm teenagers, an allegation staffers for senator bloomenthal explored. donie osullivan reports. >> we ...

Set up a facebook account, claiming to be a 13-year-old girl, and then bombarded with content promoting self-harm, eating disorders. you did something similar. tell us what you found. >> yeah, we spent a lot of time this weekend speaking to blumenthals staff. did a very, very simple experiment, but so powerful and so effective in really showing the issue here. set up an account, as a 13-year-old -- as a young teenager, 13-year-old girl, followed a few accounts about dieting, a few eating disorde...

Something that is going to go all the way to the top of the company, but at the same time, it is not just facebook. the same thing is going on throughout the economy. and congress when it is looking at this cant look at it just as a facebook problem. they have to look at this exactly the way we looked at child labor, exactly the way we looked at the chemicals industry or food industry when those industries were out of control. and the good news on this is were americans, were experienced, we kno...

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Eating disorders that some viewers may find disturbing. eternically starved. i have to be thin. skin and bone. all instagram pages the algorithm suggests an account registered to a 13-year-old girl should follow. >> what we did was to create a 13-year-old who expressed interest in weight loss and dieting and within a day, she was flooded with recommendations for accounts concerning eating disorders and personal injury. >> and whats super tragic is facebooks own research says, as these young wome...

Health say instagram make it worse, reads another. >> whats supertragic is facebooks own research says as these young women begin to consume this eating disorder content, they get more and more depr depressed it actually makes them use the app more. and so, they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebooks own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for instagram, that it harms teenagers. its that it is distinctly worse than other forms of ...

800-931-2237. they set up this account as a teenage girl. followed some accounts about dieting, eating disorders and the instagram algorithm started recommending more and more accounts that was encouraging this teenager to follow more eating disorder accounts. >> for the last several hours, all of a sudden facebook is down. instagram is down. cant go on instagram. whatsapp is down. whats going on? >> right now we dont know. facebook doesnt seem to know at the moment, which is quite concerning. t...