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ItsjustMe

(11,227 posts) Mon Oct 4, 2021, 09:57 PM Oct 2021

See how Instagram promoted pages glorifying eating disorders to teen accounts (CNN)

Sen. Blumenthal's office conducted an experiment where it registered an account as belonging to a 13-year-old girl, followed some exercise and dieting accounts, and was quickly served by Instagram's algorithms with increasingly extreme content promoting eating disorders.

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watch DUers defend this as "free speech" Skittles Oct 2021 #1

Skittles

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1. watch DUers defend this as "free speech"

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Mon Oct 4, 2021, 09:59 PM

Oct 2021

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