the fiance brian laundrie drawn from the official media accounts. with all of the focus on laundrie s role, now, he s gone into hiding. all of this comes as the wall street journal is publishing a facebook investigation. one of its stories focuses on how its instagram app is harmful to teenage girl. the journal reports facebook will be studying this with three years with focus groups and diaries on the topic but it hasn t made the research public or done anything to fix it. among the finding that the journal reports from the internal documents and slides 32% of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, instagram made them feel worse. 1 in 5 teens says instagram makes them feel worse about themselves, among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13%
of british users, 6% of european users traced the desire to kill themselves. this is even more alarming once you comprehend the number of instagram users involved. more than 40% 22 years old and younger. 22 million american teens uses that gram every day. that s compared with 5 million using facebook. the generation that has come of age posting their lives publicly has suffered more mental health problems. psychology professor gene twangy. author of that great book. noted that 2012 marked the year when more than half of america had cell phones and this coincided with deep declines in teens actually hanging out with friends. dating, having sex. she s written, quote, rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed. and since 2011, it s not an a
impact on mental health diminish its popularity? joining me now to discuss? ? technology reporter jeff horowitz who s been part of that great facebook investigation. and dr. jean twangy, doctor of psychologist at san diego university, and author of the book i referenced igen. why kids are growing up less happy and less prepared for adulthood and what that means for the rest of us. first of all, jeff, congratulations. this series by your colleagues and yours is the phenomenal. there s a lot of news and i don t want it to be lost. sufficed to say, facebook and instagram, they know they have a problem, right? i think that s something that probably we should probably begin with congratulating the company for which is i don t know that many major tech companies have studied whether their product is healthy for the users as much as figuring out
inside of instagram, they don t think it s inclusive. they made a report that we make body images diverse. this is the second biggest example this week. i m equating this with the drone strike in kabul, but for the reporting of the new york times and cnn and others we would never have known, i m convinced, what went on there. but for your reporting at the journal, we wouldn t know how facebook and instagram have been in the wlloop from the get-go about this. the final question, jean twenge, if i may, while we wait, what can patients and teachers do? great question. first, we really as parents, i have three kids myself, we shouldn t let our kids have social media accounts before the age of 13. that s actually the company s stated policy. you have to be 13 to have a
kevin mccarthy speaker. and democrat, by the way, they ve got more problematic retirements on their side as well. so the odds favor republicans. david wasserman, excellent. thank you so much for coming back. thanks for having me, michael. checking in on your tweets and facebook comments. this comes from twitter i think. what do we have? trumpism is very much alive and the gop will be destroyed because of it. joe z, this is bigger than trumpism. there were factors that gave rise to the election of donald trump that i think are similar to those that gave rise to brexit. and if your belief in sending me that tweet to think when donald trump is no longer a dominating influence on the republican party that these type of issues that we re discussing go away i totally disagree. still to come, legendary pulitzer prize winning columnist george will is in the on deck circle and ready to play ball. i want to remind to you answer