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Metric, because if people didn't enjoy the experience, they wouldn't come back. but you mentioned frances haugen earlier, and one of the pieces of evidence she published was the study facebook did looking at instagram users in the uk and in the us, particularly teenage girls. it said between about, i think it was about 20% in the us, up to about 30% of the uk, girls in the research group, said that they had heightened levels of anxiety and depression having used the site. but the same research also said they felt they couldn't not use it because they couldn't miss out on what their friends wer...

But the same research also said they felt they couldn't not use it because they couldn't miss out on what their friends were doing. so facebook makes these decisions. it balances engagement versus harm, and too often it favours engagement, keeping engagement high, rather than reducing harm. and there's a very good example of this as well relating to the us presidential election in 2020, where facebook, in the run—up to polling day, decided to try and dampen down fake news and disinformation by favouring trusted news sources in the algorithm over civic society groups, which are considered to ...