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Blumenthal, it is horrific what is happening. i dont believe theres enough context around what exactly an eating disorder looks like. what you see are images of children starving themselves on this platform. and others witnessing that and replicating it. that is why this platform essentially is so dangerous as well as other forms of self-harm. >> lets hear a little more about that. i think, sometimes, you need to shock the situation in congress, especially free speech and government agency. you ...

Teen girls and things like self-harm, they dwp these feedback cycles where children are using instagram to self-soothe, but then are exposed to more and more content that makes them hate themselves. >> now, instagram, as you know, shelved these ideas it had around an under-13 version of itself. well, she says she thinks that idea will be back because she says facebook requires for its business model to teach children habits around its products before they develop self-control. >> the other piece...

Dad met... he said he would ban this content on the flight from, which are priced in, because why would they not do that before young girl lost her life? but anyway, he was given that assurance and that sort of material is still on the site. look, molly russells death is such a horrific tragedy, and my heart goes out to her family, a horrific tragedy, and my heart goes out to herfamily, and itjust underscores how important this issue is to get right. i want to correct the record there. we always...

It is so graphic i feel bad sharing with other journalists. they couldnt even probably show it in the hearing. when they compare it to smoking cigarettes, its not even close. im talking about mutilation and lacerations that go from the hip to their ankles, okay? im talking about horrific self-harm. and when these parents are saying that some of their children have been driven to suicide that is real. i believe them. and i think we need to believe parents at this point, who have experienced the a...

Young girls on facebook and instagram not having positive experiences. it can mean witnessing images that cause incredibly distress, mental health issues, even self-harm, even thoughts of suicide. were talking about real-life consequences from these platforms being brought to our attention in ways never before thanks to the whistleblower. in some ways, it is like there is a giant pollution plant, snorting out pollution all day long, all of us are inhaling it every day, and now were starting to p...

Nearly one in every three teenagers in Australia has considered self-harm, with adolescent girls more likely than boys to report thoughts and incidents of self-harm. This is according to a report [...]

Knows of the harmful effects of its site on children, and it has concealed those facts and findings. >> and senator blumenthal said they set up an account as a 13-year-old girl. his staff use that account to follow some extreme dieting pages that are on instagram, and within a day, instagrams own algorithms, its own engines were recommending to that account that it follow accounts that were promoting self-harm. so really an experiment there showing really just how dangerous this platform can be ...

One-third of Australian teenagers, particularly girls, have considered self-harm over the last 12 months, a concerning trend in ...

Children are very carefully regulated. >> tucker: its pretty obvious just to nonresearchers that something went wrong with american society right around the moment computers became pocket sized and social media became the form through which people communicated. those are not co-indens, are they? >> i dont think so. pretty much every indicator of mental health among teens started to suffer right at the time smart phones became introduced and then when they became popular around 2012. thats indica...

Theyre data guys. turns out thats not true. wall street journal published internal facebook documents that shows instagram degrades mental >> degraded the mental health of one-third of teenage girls who used it. this is their own documents. a psychology professor author of the new book, she joins us tonight and thank you for joining us. so what are the chances that they didnt know this when mark zuckerberg told congress the opposite? >> they absolutely knew this. that research was done three yea...