Do you want to just introduce yourself?

Yeah.

My name is Georgia Wells, and I'm a tech reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

If you've heard Georgia's name recently, it's because her reporting has helped unearth some of Facebook's secrets.

She's part of a team at the journal that got a hold of internal company documents,

the kind of things that executives write to one another about their products and what they do.

And in this case, what Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, does to teenagers' mental health.

In the course of your reporting, when you talk to teens, particularly teenage girls, what did their Instagram feeds look like?

The teen girls I spoke with, some of them showed me their feeds, but they also described them.

And obviously a huge amount of the content was their friends.

But there was also interspersed influencers kind of showcasing often like perfect body,

perfect image, perfect life. And then also there was an element of advertising. The number of ads

for bikinis, these teemed girls were receiving, it knocked my socks off. It was like,

friend, friend, friend, influencer friend bikini, friend, friend, friend, bikini. It was in their face.

One of the girls told Georgia about searching for workout tips in her explore page. That's where you

can find new content, but also where the app starts to

recommend things for you, based on what you've looked at previously. And after she did that search,

what it recommended to her was unsettling. Her feed was filled with, eat this, not that.

Here's how to diet more. Here's how to, you how to eat fewer than X number of calories in a day.

And she was quite surprised by kind of how quickly her feed turned into this overall message of your body is not good enough.

How did it make her feel?

Not good.

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