Family Blames Instagram for Teen's Eating Disorder in Lawsuit Citing Facebook Papers
, revealed to the world that Meta knew how some of its users felt about their use of social media: badly.found that many teens blamed Instagram directly for anxiety and depressive episodes. These self-diagnoses were reported “unprompted,” the company said, and were “consistent across all groups.”“Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,” read one leaked presentation from March 2020.
Facebook responded to the leak at the time by downplaying the negative effects, which it described as “quite small” in scale. Executives noted that the leaked research was not considered scientific by any academic standard. The bulk of it was conducted by marketing experts, and the ill effects were based on subjective, retrospective analysis self-reported by users.
That case, which remains unsettled, centers around the “speed filter” feature removed by Snapchat last year. The filter was designed to allow users to capture how fast they were moving, but allegedly led some users to pursue bragging rights by driving recklessly at excessive speeds. Several deaths between
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