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of binge eating. facebook likes to present things as false choices. reporter: their stories illustrate what former-facebook employee turned whistle-blower frances haugen testified before congress. i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. reporter: haugen also submitted complaints to the securities and exchange commission citing facebook s own internal research which found facebook s platforms, which include instagram, make body-image issues worse for one in three teen girls. 13.5% of teen girls on instagram say the platform makes thoughts of suicide and self-injury worse. and 17% of teenaged girls say instagram makes eating issues, such as anorexia and bulimiae wors. in a statement to cnn, they said the percentages are actually much lower. the company s leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer but won t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people.
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whistleblower testified before congress. i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. haugen also submitted complaints citing facebook s own internal research which found facebook s platforms, which included instagram, make body image problems worse for one in three teen girls. 13.5 teen girls say the platform makes thoughts of suicide and self-injury worse and 17% of teenage girls say instagram makes eating issues such as anorexia and bulimia worse. the company s leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer but won t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. congressional action is needed. remove content that could lead to imminent real world harm. mark zuckerberg responded in