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Has social media broken our brains?: Anxious generation
Molly Russell was fourteen. Her father opened her Instagram after she died and found thousands of posts about self-harm and suicide, escalating in graphic intensity, delivered by a recommendation engine that treated her darkening engagement as a signal to go darker.... Has social media broken our brains?: The Story
In 2017, Facebook’s own data scientists found that Instagram made teenage girls feel worse about their bodies. Thirty-two percent of teen girls said so directly. The company shelved the report. Four years later, Frances Haugen walked out with the documents....