they are looking at accounts that may be inspiration or there is a term that is called thinspiration or fitspiration, we know that that can definitely increase social comparison and, therefore, result in negative body image, negative mental health. reporter: and for people who might be struggling with some of the issues in that report, contact the national eating disorder association s help line on 1-800-931-2237. anderson, i want to underline just how disturbing what you saw there was. that was essentially an account belonging to a 13-year-old child that instagram was pushing pages that were glorifying eating disorders to. frances haugen is going to testify in front of the senate tomorrow. do we know what she is expected to say? she is going to lay it into facebook tomorrow. here is some of her testimony. her opening statement that was released earlier. facebook wants you to believe in
this experience shows graphically how these claims to protect children or take down accounts that may be dangerous to them are absolute hogwash. in fact, it was not taken down until cnn brought it to their attention. reporter: a spokesperson for instagram s parent company facebook said it uses technology and reports from users to remove content that violates its rules on eating disorders as quickly as it can, adding they are always working to improve. with eating disorders and social media, we do know that there is this social comparison component, and so the more time people spend on social media and they are looking at accounts that may be inspiration or there is a term that is called thinspiration or fitspiration, we know that that can definitely increase social comparison and, therefore, result in negative body image, negative mental health.
brought it to their attention. reporter: a spokesperson for instagram s parent company facebook said it uses technology and reports from users to remove content that violates its rules on eating disorders as quickly as it can, adding they are always working to improve. with eating disorders and social media, we do know that there is this social comparison component. and so the more time people spend on social media and they are looking at accounts that may be inspiration or there s a term that s called thinspiration or fit-spiration. that can increase social comparison and result in negative body image, negative mental health. and people impacted by the issues discussed in that report can contact the national eating disorder help line at
to body image. still, this doesn t have to do with thinspiration. go ahead. the suggestion i was making, it seemed to bridge out of him not knowing what that word meant either. and the initial confrontation with him about it was calling him a d list celebrity, was very derogatory. he got into a fight. i m not excusing his behavior into this at all. but both of these are very important issues, anorexia and bulimia and how you deal with this. if you re trying to make people aware, that doesn t help to immediately assume he knows and start criticizing a guy who just lost the weight. we have such an issue with food in this country. interestingly enough, both of them seem to be like they re trying to get healthier and make sure other people are healthy, whether it s undereating or overeating is one thing. the ironic thing is this is over a show called man versus food. that s what happened. art is imitating life here.