amplification algorithms, things like engagement-based ranking on instagram, can lead children all the way from just something innocent like healthy recipes to anorexia promoting content over a very short period of time. reporter: in a statement at the time, ceo mark zuckerberg said haugen s testimony painted a false picture of the company and that the idea that the company would deliberately push upsetting content for project is deeply illogical. he wrote that it s very important to him that everything the company builds is safe and good for kids. we have about 1700 clients. they re children that took their life after being bullied online. we also have cases involving children that have developed eating disorders, children that have developed depression or sexually abused and exploited online. reporter: that s a lot of different things to put under the umbrella of harm done by
social media use, they put a tape statement saying that the idea that mark zuckerberg was a kinder for 20 the place is absurd. that he might could sort of people over profits in light of what we have learned over the past couple of years about how facebook has struggled with content moderation and in the case of instagram we learned released by francis haugen that perhaps they made design choices for engagement rather than protection. we are talking about this and our wired for travel documentary that is coming out on sunday. . and i think we have a clip here just to give you a sense of the course of the reporting . pinnacle, cool. there what tammy did not know at what time was that selena had figured out how to block her mother from seeing her on one life. she had saved her printer print, i didn t know she had saved it in my phone. so, if i fell asleep or
DHS says 89,000 pages of Facebook data on a 66-year-old user show he heavily relied on the social network to target vulnerable women for enforced domestic servitude, theft, babysitting and sex work.
DHS says 89,000 pages of Facebook data on a 66-year-old user show he heavily relied on the social network to target vulnerable women for enforced domestic servitude, theft, babysitting and sex work.