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What Next TBD: What Instagram Does to Teens

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Since 2018, internal research teams at Facebook have been studying the effect on Instagram on mental health. Their results couldn’t be more clear: Instagram is causing problems, especially for teen girls. Why has it taken so long for their research to surface? And what can be done to improve the relationship between kids and the platform? Guest: Georgia Wells, tech reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Host: Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Do you want to just introduce yourself?

0:36.6

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

0:40.9

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

0:45.4

of Facebook's secrets. She's part of a team at the Journal that got a hold of internal

0:50.4

company documents, the kind of things that executives write to one another about their products

0:55.7

and what they do. And in this case, what Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, does to teenagers'

1:01.8

mental health. In the course of your reporting, when you talk to teens, particularly teenage girls,

1:09.4

what did their Instagram feeds look like?

1:12.4

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

1:17.5

And obviously a huge amount of the content was their friends, but there was also interspersed

1:22.3

influencers showcasing, often like perfect body, perfect image, perfect life.

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