reporter: and moments after the hearing ended, the company s head of global policy management tried to put that internal research that instagram may be harmful to teens in a different light. facebook s own research shows that instagram harms teenage girls. how could your company know that, do research on it and ignore it? first, that s not an accurate characterization. with regard to this instagram survey, it s a very small survey of 40 instagram teens who are struggling with mental health issues and they were asked their instagram makes things better or worse for them. and on all 12 issues, the majority of both boys and girls who answer these questions, said that instagram either makes things better for them or has no material impact. let s get right to terry moran, live on the hill this evening. and terry, facebook responding to this testimony today from this whistle-blower, claiming they ve been trying to get more
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speaking out publicly, accusing them of putting profit over public good. a former project manager says the social media giant knows its platforms are used to spread hate, violence, and misinformation. and she says instagram, which facebook bought in 2012, makes eating disorders and thoughts of suicide worse in teenage girls. it s hiding all of this evidence in order to protect its profits. here s more from 60 minutes and its report. reporter: evidence of harm, she says, extends to facebook s instagram app. one of the facebook internal studies that you found talks about how instagram harms teenage girls. oh, yeah. reporter: one study says 13.5% of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse. 17% of teen girls say instagram
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capitol. they appeared on 60 minutes minutes ago ahead of her appearance in a senate hearing on tuesday. she said thousands of pages of internal company research she turned over to the feds prove that facebook is falsely claiming it s effective in efforts to stop hate and misinformation. and that teenage girl are also victims, casualties of the company s corporate greed. evidence of harm she says extends to facebook s instagram app. one of the facebook internal studies that you found talks about how instagram harms teenage girls. oh, yeah. one study says 13.5% of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse. 17% of teen girls say instagram makes eating disorders worse. what is super tragic is
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senator more that if we were to go after solely facebook that is not going to solve the problem. we need something larger. i would call it a digital convention to rewrite and reexamine privacy, data security, algorithm laws to make sure that we can protect consumers and they can still be connected in that new digital environment. i want to play something that this whistle-blower said about the company s knowledge of the harm it does n this case to teen girls who use instagram. one of the facebook internal studies that you found talks about how instagram harms teenage girls. oh, yeah. one study says 13.5% of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse. 17% of teen girls say instagram makes eating disorders worse. what is super traj sick facebook s own research says
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