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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 addictive

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 there's a striking parallel to big tobacco. i sued big tobacco and led the litigation against big tobacco. i remember the moment we learned th...

Facebook ought to be helping parents to protect their children. but second there's another serious point here. which is that facebook's growth, it's 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 susceptibility to doubt and negative images of ones self. what we need is stronger intervention to help...

Or six so i can get mental clarity and relax. they're on the screens the whole time. the brains get preyed on by the vultures at facebook. there's mostly pedophiles on-line too. it backfired. the kids, it's like an arm's 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 don't 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? >> john: these social media sites have more analytics than any company on the face on the earth. they...

Question. tell me about what it's 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. it's 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, it's not just instagram but a lot of other social media, much more likely of serious concerns about as w...