<story><title>Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;egPlc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;egPlc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;“The research that we’ve seen is that using social apps to connect with other people can have positive mental-health benefits,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a congressional hearing...&lt;p&gt;“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues.
“Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,” said another slide. “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”&lt;p&gt;From what researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook’s internal message board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfortuny</author><text>&amp;quot;Using social apps to connect with other people can have positive mental-health benefits&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That statement &lt;i&gt;cannot be false&lt;/i&gt; because it is devoid of any content, being a mere hypothetical. The fact that it is surrounded by &amp;quot;research&amp;quot; is meaningless as well, as the aforementioned sentence is like saying &amp;quot;the elements of the empty set fulfil all  properties&amp;quot;...&lt;p&gt;So no, they are not contradicting themselves. They are simply and wantonly misleading people.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;egPlc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;egPlc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;“The research that we’ve seen is that using social apps to connect with other people can have positive mental-health benefits,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a congressional hearing...&lt;p&gt;“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues.
“Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,” said another slide. “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”&lt;p&gt;From what researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook’s internal message board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spockz</author><text>This shows how a statement can be factually true and completely disingenuous at the same time.&lt;p&gt;Yes 1&amp;#x2F;3 are effected badly but we just say that it &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; have positive effects. Just omitting the fact that it often has a detrimental effect…</text></comment>