CEO also briefly addressed the platforms’ outage in lengthy post
“At the heart of the accusations is this idea that we prioritize profit over safety and well-being,” Zuckerberg wrote. “That’s just not true.”
Amidst the information Haugen leaked and discussed in Congress is Facebook studies that found young people, particularly teen girls, were adversely affected by the use of Instagram, where 13.5 percent of UK teen girls reported more suicidal thoughts, 17 percent of teen girls said they had worsening eating disorders and around 32 percent of teen girls said they had negative outlooks on their bodies after using the platform, asZuckerberg called that information a “mischaracterization” in his post.
Haugen also discussed the issue of algorithms fomenting division and spreading misinformation. “It is causing teenagers to be exposed to more anorexia content. It is pulling families apart. And in places like Ethiopia, it’s literally fanning ethnic violence,” Haugen told Congress, as
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