| ▲ | dabedee 4 hours ago | |
I'm usually the first one to bash Facebook and its main liar in chief, but the first couple of paragraphs mix damning evidence with weak stretches (as mentioned by others here). The bad stuff is genuinely bad enough. Meta's own research found Instagram worsened body image for 1 in 3 teen girls [1]. They killed a deactivation study when results looked bad, with one employee comparing it to tobacco companies burying research [2]. They had a 17-strike policy for accounts involved in sexual solicitation [3]. And they ran growth strategies explicitly targeting kids under 13, segmenting youth into "Kid (6-10), Tween (10-13), and Teen 13+" [4]. [1] 2019 Instagram slide presentation, "Teen Mental Health Deep Dive" [2] Meta internal deactivation study (unnamed employee quote from unsealed docs) [3] Testimony of Vaishnavi Jayakumar, former Instagram Head of Safety and Well-being [4] Meta Internal Evidence Exhibit 45 | ||