The operational assumption inside facebook is that this stuff really isn't good for te naters who are in a vulnerable place. For some users, and again, this is among people who had thoughts of hurting themselves, they traced that directly back to the platform. Six per cent of users who thought about killing themselves in the last month trace that idea to instogram directly. And do any research on where bad body image issues amongst ten age curls leads? We asked jeff to walk us through the thous s of pages of internal facebook files because there's just a ton of stuff.
Facebook kicked off the week with an outage and followed that up today with a whistleblower testifying before Congress. The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz explains how the company may have misled the public about the dangers of its social networks.
Today’s show was produced by Will Reid, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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