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The Harms of Targeted Weight Loss Ads

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Are You Seeing More Transparency From Platforms and Advertisers?

There's a new instogram feature that came out this summer where users can often to see less of a topic in their advertising. A lot of these ads don't say weight loss outright, they'll use kind of like language that feels a little bit more vague. I also think we need a lot more transparency into how these see less features work. And i think without having actual harmed members of the disordered eating community speaking out about what that looks like, it's not going to be clear what adds are counted as weight loss adds.

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