Facebook Files - How Instagram is driving teenagers into anorexia (Swiss Press Text 2023, by Roland Gamp) - Swiss Press Award

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Roland Gamp

Internal documents demonstrate how Instagram is damaging the mental health of teenagers. The algorithm is programmed so that the most extreme content receives the most likes. Research using profiles from Switzerland shows the consequences: Young people are drawn into a vortex of disturbing images. They are threatened and driven to anorexia or suicidal tendencies.