Business Weekly
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BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On Business Weekly, we hear how internal research at Facebook found that social media was harming the mental health of teenage girls. In the UK, the Royal Society of Public Health is calling for social media companies to identify which pictures have been digitally altered. Also, green investing or green washing? We hear from a former Blackrock investment officer who says corporate social responsibility policies are not helping to create a carbon-zero economy. Plus, our correspondent in Kenya goes stargazing to learn how African tourism operators are trying to attract domestic customers and diversify their businesses. And, as Broadway theatres reopen, we find out how the first night went - and what the future may hold. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Lee Doucette from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.2 | I've been reporting from Afghanistan for more than 30 years. |
| 0:07.1 | The Americans are now out, the Taliban in. |
| 0:10.5 | How did we get here? |
| 0:11.9 | What happens next? |
| 0:13.4 | Our podcast, A Wish for Afghanistan, may be able to help. |
| 0:17.6 | Search for A Wish for Afghanistan Afghanistan wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. On the show today, we'll hear how |
| 0:32.4 | the scientists behind the Biontek Pfizer vaccine hope their revolutionary method of using messenger RNA to fight |
| 0:39.0 | COVID could be used to protect against other diseases. Could this new technology change the entire |
| 0:44.9 | pharmaceutical industry? We'll also hear from a former investment chief at BlackRock. He says |
| 0:50.7 | corporate social responsibility isn't working. First though, I want to play you a clip of two teenage girls. |
| 0:57.7 | Lucy and Anya live in the UK, |
| 0:59.4 | and they've been telling us how the social media site Instagram affects them. |
| 1:03.3 | It's not a great feeling because if we're seeing these amazing girls on these yachts in their bikinis |
| 1:08.6 | and we're thinking, oh, why don't I look like that? Why am I not on a yacht? |
| 1:12.9 | It just makes us feel like we're doing something wrong. There's something wrong in our life. |
| 1:17.7 | From day to day, after coming off of social media, I immediately will feel self-conscious about what I'm doing or the way I look or the way I'm dressed. |
| 1:26.2 | And I know that's not just a me thing |
| 1:29.0 | it's an everyone thing. |
| 1:30.4 | As you can hear, both those girls feel that endless exposure to beautiful people with so-called |
| 1:35.9 | perfect bodies and seemingly perfect lives damages their own self-esteem and mental health. |
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