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Self-harm encouraging images and videos to teenage girls, they will take the profit one, not the morally correct one. do you disagree? as an expert on facebook, is that premise wrong? >> so that premise is the thrust of our book. and an ugly truth where we show that facebook has consistently, over and over, chosen profits and growth in particular. and that means prioritizing engagement. the kind of things that keep facebook popular. the center of conversation and growing with users. the kind of ...

One in seven youths in sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing a mental health condition, according to the 'State of the World’s Children' report released on Tuesday.

One in seven youths in sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing a mental health condition, according to the 'State of the World’s Children' report released on Tuesday.

Information on its site to make a profit. she also alleges facebooks instagram app harms teenage girls and that the company isnt doing enough to stop it. in her opening statement, haugen writes this. she said, their profit optimizing machine is producing self-hate and self-harm for vulnerable groups like teenage girls. its been supported by internal research. this is coming with analysis of blumenthals staff, showing the algorithms promote accounts that glorify eating disorders. joining me now i...

These decisions? should it be artificial intelligence? anybody two, how transparent should the company be to members of congress and parents? and are there conversations about what should be regulated and what should facebook and other platforms be forced to show up? >> im happy that shes testifying, because as an external researchers it was very difficult to be able to draw that conclusion for the public. so, now, we have the inside information that helps provide that transparency. and so to pu...

Self-harm, they develop feed book cycles where children are using instagram to self-soothe but then exposed to more and more content than makes them hate themselves. >> when i hear that they too are gravitating toward content that feeds what they want to hear already if theyre worried about the vaccine, theyre gravitating toward that content and facebook is rewarding them for clicking on it. whether its children whose self-esteem is destroyed or grandparents, it feels like the algorithm treats t...

Her personal life _ i said it wasnt my fault. trauma in her personal life was met - i said it wasnt my fault. trauma in her personal life was met by - i said it wasnt my fault. trauma in l her personal life was met by trauma in her professional life. anxiety lead to depression and self—harm. all of which nearly cost elyse her life. i all of which nearly cost elyse her life. , , ~ life. ijust remember feeling like i couldnt do _ life. ijust remember feeling like i couldnt do this _ life. ijust ...

Friends, like people who care about them, are cruel to them. i would like to emphasize one of the documents that bewe sent in examined the rates of problematic use by age and that peaked with 14-year-olds. its just like cigarettes. teenagers dont have good self-regulation. they say explicitly, i feel bad when i use instagram, and yet i cant stop. >> i mean, its so heartbreaking. dr. stroman, victor and i were talking before the program. that means theres no escape from the bullying. you cant tur...

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...

All of this focus should be on him, not you. yeah. instead of hiding away and being, like, that happened and im ashamed of myself, its kind of, that happened and i accept it, it wasnt my fault. trauma in her personal life was met by trauma in her professional life. anxiety led to depression and self—harm. all of which nearly cost elise her life. ijust remember being, like, i cant feel like this any more. i cant cope with feeling like this any more, i cant go another second. and it was kind of ...