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Consume this eating disorder content they get more and more depressed and it makes them use the app more. and so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebook's own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, it is distinctly worse than other forms of social media. >> reporter: that's whistle-blower frances haugen, who leaked thousands of documents from facebook, including the company's own research, like this. a presentation about the dangers of instagram for teenagers. we make body issues worse for 1 in 3 girls, reads one ...

Said on 60 minutes. as these young women consume eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed, it actually makes them use the app more so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more. facebook's own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, it harms teenagers. it's distinctly worse than other social media. do you deny that that research exists? >> there are -- there's research we have put out. in fact, we put out more than 400 research papers that we have participated in or released ourselves in the past year alone, and there i...

Health issues, through social media. listen to what the whistleblower had to say -- >> one study says 13.5% of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse. 17% of teen girls say instagram makes eating disorders worse. >> and what's super tragic is facebook's own research says as these young women begin to consume this eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed, it makes them use the app more. and so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebook's own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, tha...

Really damaging effects. and so there needs -- what's happening now is sort of a level set in the conversation where people aren't just taking facebook's word for it. they want to know more about what the company knows and what they're research shows. >> i want to stay on instagram for a minute and play something that was said on 60 minutes last night about instagram and what facebook knows about the effects. >> and what's super tragic is facebook's own research says as these young women begin to consume this content, they get more and more depressed. and actually it makes them use the app mor...

More and more depressed. they actually use the app out more, so they end up in a feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. >> the former product manager had worked there for almost two years when she left. she was hired to combat election interference, but that the platform thrived off of chaos, catering and allowing cartels and traffickers to openly use the service. >> misinformation. it is enticing to people and keeps them on the platform. >> yes. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site. they will click on ...