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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, that it harms teenagers, it is that it is distinctly worse than other forms of social media. >> it's hazardous. >> we're starting to have this conversation about how it's affecting us as individuals, and how it's affecting us as society. what you heard right there is an example of how it's affecting individuals, especially young women, and how it's affecting societies, and the problem with these algorithms, this is the algorithms on all social media ...

Reinforcing some of the whistle-blower's points. >> isn't it good for everybody to have to detox. >> take this as a break. >> a two and a half hour detox. >> i'm feeling that addictive tug. >> well take note. >> all right. brian stelter, thank you. so this whistle-blower also gave more details about an internal study on the facebook owned app instagram and the body issues it creates for young women and girls. >> one study said 13.5% of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse, 17% of teen girls say instagram makes eating disorders worse. >> and what is super tragic is faceboo...

Here's more from the 60 minutes report. >> one of the facebook-internal studies that you found talks about how instagram harms teenaged girls. >> oh, yeah. >> one study says 13 and a half percent of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse. 17% of teen girls say instagram makes eating disorders worse. >> and what's supertragic is facebook's own research says, as these young women begin to consume this eating-disorder content, they get more and more depressed. it actually makes them use the app more. and so, they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more an...

We talk about the dress than the message. >> yeah. it's sort of complex. it was sort of a subject of debate for hours and really days ultimately and then of course becomes self fulfilling when people talk about and then the media involves themselves and a weird kind of pardon me if you hear the siren outside, the sort of vicious feedback cycle and that realm but the very controversy and cysted and organic on social media looking at the people that follow her i don't think it was entirely bad faith and people on the left from the kind of activist scene

>> reporter: you guys have traded your technologies that you can code your ideas into the hands of billions of people. what questions in technology with these leaders who have so much power should we start asking? >> one of them is have we created systems that bring people together to find common ground or have we created systems that dwietd us into different parties, republicans, democrats, i think that's a hard question, through technology it's very possible to live in your own bubble. in my president bush feed you would never believe trump would be elected and the information sources that i...