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Say last night on "60 minutes." >> the thing i saw at facebook was there was conflict of interest between was good for the public and what was good for facebook and facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money. chooses profit over safety. paying for its profits with our safety. as these young women begin to consume this content, they get more and more depressed. it makes them use the app more so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate th...

Makes eating adddisorders worse >> what is super tragic, facebooks own research says, as the young women consume the eating disorder content, they get more depressed, and they use the app more. they are in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebooks own research says, it is not just dangerous and harms te teenagers, its worse than other forms of social media. >> reporter: facebook said last week they would postpone plans to create an instagram for younger children. ...

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 ...

Teens. >> as these young women began to dhiewm eating disorder content they got more and more depressed. actually makes them use the app. more. they end up in the feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. >> we are never going to be able to eliminate the baseball human tendency to compare yourself to others. >> in todays white house press briefing, press secretary jen psaki voiced concern from the biden administration. >> efforts to attract young users and negative effects on te...

Feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebooks own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, that it harms teenagers, it is that it is distinctly worse than other forms of social media. >> its hazardous. >> were starting to have this conversation about how its affecting us as individuals, and how its affecting us as society. what you heard right there is an example of how its affecting individuals, especially young women, and how its affecting ...

Reinforcing some of the whistle-blowers points. >> isnt it good for everybody to have to detox. >> take this as a break. >> a two and a half hour detox. >> im feeling that addictive tug. >> well take note. >> all right. brian stelter, thank you. so this whistle-blower also gave more details about an internal study on the facebook owned app instagram and the body issues it creates for young women and girls. >> one study said 13.5% of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse, 17%...

Heres more from the 60 minutes report. >> one of the facebook-internal studies that you found talks about how instagram harms teenaged girls. >> oh, yeah. >> one study says 13 and a half percent of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse. 17% of teen girls say instagram makes eating disorders worse. >> and whats supertragic is facebooks own research says, as these young women begin to consume this eating-disorder content, they get more and more depressed. it actually makes them ...

We talk about the dress than the message. >> yeah. its sort of complex. it was sort of a subject of debate for hours and really days ultimately and then of course becomes self fulfilling when people talk about and then the media involves themselves and a weird kind of pardon me if you hear the siren outside, the sort of vicious feedback cycle and that realm but the very controversy and cysted and organic on social media looking at the people that follow her i dont think it was entirely bad faith...

>> reporter: you guys have traded your technologies that you can code your ideas into the hands of billions of people. what questions in technology with these leaders who have so much power should we start asking? >> one of them is have we created systems that bring people together to find common ground or have we created systems that dwietd us into different parties, republicans, democrats, i think thats a hard question, through technology its very possible to live in your own bubble. in my pre...