How Instagram Is Trying to Hook Girls to Dangerous Content

Previously unpublished internal document reveals Facebook new Instagram was pushing girls to dangerous content. It says that in 2021, an Instagram employee ran an internal investigation on eating disorders by opening up a false account as a 13 year old girl looking for diet tips. Other memos show Facebook employees raising concerns about company research that revealed Instagram made one in three teen girls feel worse about their bodies. And the teens who used the app felt higher rates of anxiety and depression.