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For many, the pandemic has disrupted daily habits around eating and fitness – which makes it a prime time to shake up old assumptions about achieving an ideal body.

Self-image or eating disorders, that if they typed in hash tags like skinny or thin, that they would get even more images of eating disorders. and content about eating disorders. and that the algorithm pushes, it bombards you with this information and cause nod just bad self-image but depression and self-harm or worse. were trying to get to the bottom of it. >> theres no disputing that research that you pointed to is out there and shows conclusively the harm it does. however as a parent, as a te...

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Around, how could they possibly have believed this? how could they have participated in the system? and now we know we are as human beings in the face of an effective tyrant -- no matter how comical, weak and exposed and unless we fight it and do our jobs whether its journalists or citizens or voters, we are in a historical moment. the exposure to authoritarianism has gotten deeper. im very concerned about that. >> and that really is whats been the most shattering as far as our self-image that y...

Committee that held the hearing with the facebook whistle-blower. his staff is the one that put together that experiment with an account posing as a 13-year-old girl. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> so you heard zuckerbergs response. what do you think? >> i think it is, number one r, hes advocating selective transparency. if you look at the thousands of pages of documents they convincingly support the whistle-blower, frances haugen, who was so compelling yesterday. wh...

Hiding their insecurity. we created an account for a 13-year-old who express interests in dieting and weight loss. within a day she was flood with recommendations on eating disorders and self image. those accounts were not taken down even though that 13 years old complained to facebook. only when in fact others like -- networks with accounts taken down. there is a striking similarity here being tobacco in the files that have been deleted. there was a moment we discovered big tobacco have shown a...

Accounts and handles is the growth metric. a single teenager with four or five accounts is good for instagram. they are wanting those numbers to go as high as possible, even if parents say, we need one identified account for our identified kid and not having them anonymously swimming through the world of instagram. >> they are profiting of the destruction of the kids self image and the perfect storm as one of the studies show it. they concealed it. and theres a striking parallel to big tobacco. ...

Facebook ought to be helping parents to protect their children. but second theres another serious point here. which is that facebooks growth, its metrics consist of numbers of users that is how it raises the stock level. the way it sells to advertisers. so, facebook essentially is making money by exploiting kids vulnerabilities and we know as parents, anybody who has had teenage children and mine are four, beyond the teenage years now. these are the most vulnerable years in self image and suscep...

Or six so i can get mental clarity and relax. theyre on the screens the whole time. the brains get preyed on by the vultures at facebook. theres mostly pedophiles on-line too. it backfired. the kids, its like an arms race for superficiality. i know kids are going to go, am i prettier, am i skinnier, how good do i look? it will destroy their self-image. we dont want that. no one cherishes women as much as i do. >> i think one ex-president does cherish women more than you do. now john rich? >> joh...

Question. tell me about what its like to be a teenager the america. how do you feel and how do you feel about the country? the words i hear today regardless of where i am in the city, i hear words like we are in a downward spiral. its terrifying. folks are close minded and off the rail. when we dig in from a qualitative like we have several in the last harbor ipus survey. we are doing this because harvard students are interested. we find young women spend time on instagram and by the way, its no...