From the article: “Some Instagram researchers said it was challenging to get other colleagues to hear the gravity of their findings. Plus, “We’re standing dire

From the article: “Some Instagram researchers said it was challenging to get other colleagues to hear the gravity of their findings. Plus, “We’re standing directly between people and their bonuses,” one former researcher said.” “Facebook executives have struggled to find ways to reduce Instagram’s harm while keeping people on the platform, according to internal presentations on the topic.” Sums up the problem succinctly. Attack the revenue if you want results, legislation is the only tool we have to truly compel and affect change in a company that willfully ignores the societal harms they are uniquely perpetuating at scale to dizzying public health epidemic levels (population level mental health decline across demographics, Facebook echo chambers radicalizing people and affecting voting/eroding democracy, etc.) Enough is enough.