The newspaper The Wall Street Journal revealed the results of an internal Facebook investigation that showed how Instagram in harmful to teenagers and how it affects his mental health, news that caused an immediate reaction from the United States Congress.
Democratic senators Ed Markey, Lori Trahan and Kathy Castor sent a letter to Facebook demanding effective responses from the social network for the protection of young people and reiterating the request that they cease the idea of launching a Instagram for kids.
According to him reporte del Wall Stree Journal, for three years Facebook has been analyzing the impact of Instagram on mental health of its users, especially the youngest, and have been able to measure the “toxic” effect of the network in that population, which they exemplified with documented cases of people with eating disorders, among others, attributed to Instagram.
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Facebook’s own internal reports revealed that Instagram increases anxiety and depression. They also found in these investigations that Instagram affects self-esteem with personal image in one in three adolescents. It should be noted that these are polls carried out by Facebook itself since 2019.
Instagram explains the reports
In the face of the Wall Street Journal revelation, Facebook acknowledged the existence of such studies, which he endorsed and defended as, on the contrary, “demonstrates our commitment to understanding the complex and difficult problems that young people can struggle with, and details all the work that we do to help those who experience these problems,” he said. Instagram in a public statement.
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According to Instagram “we analyze the benefits and risks of what we do “and for that” we hire the best researchers and scientists “to” help us see beyond our own work. ”
According to Facebook and Instagram, the Wall Street Journal report focused only on part of their investigations, which in context what they show is that “social media is not good or bad for the people. Many find them useful one day and problematic the next “, something that is ‘normal’ according to the platform.
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