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Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds
- cranberryturkey 2y ago[flagged]
- bix6 2y agoInstagram is an anxiety fountain.
- qup 2y ago> Meta is actively helping self-harm content to flourish on Instagram by failing to remove explicit images That's like an oxymoron. "Actively" implies taking action. Instagram is passively helping the spread of self-harm among teenagers. Maybe they mean it's current and on-going.
- loceng 2y agoSo does that word use allow us to insinuate this is more likely propaganda towards manufacturing consent towards certain laws being implemented?
- qup 2y agoHuh? I'm not sure, I just like the claim to match reality.
- goda90 2y ago> and encouraging those engaging with such content to befriend one another You left off the rest of the sentence which shows the active part.
- bdangubic 2y agoahhhh but why would you read the whole thing… c’mon mate… :)
- drewcoo 2y agoMaybe actively is literally virtually the new passively.
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- loceng 2y agoThere's been another recent push in certain countries for authoritarian-like policies, and so I would be skeptical and criticize such articles as potentially being propaganda to try to manufacture consent towards acceptance of implementing policies such as "everyone will need to register and be known to the [authoritarian] state, so we know if you are 16 years old or not;" rather than putting that responsibility on the parents and creating laws to require technology to make that easier for the parents to manage vs. abdicating that responsibility to a so-called nanny state [which even if well intentioned then is a single point of failure-capture for bad actors].
- alwa 2y agoOriginal publication (PDF, Danish, Google Drive link from the NGO): https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1MZrFRii_nJYdW8RulORB9JveLkCRbncX&export=download&authuser=0 https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1MZrFRii_nJ... via their Google Drive link at: https://www.digitaltansvar.dk/viden/analyser https://www.digitaltansvar.dk/viden/analyser The article left me wondering whether they actually cultivated a network of kids interested in self-harm. It sounds from the study (such as it is) that they in fact just simulated vulnerable 13-year-olds’ accounts. Which comes as something of a relief from an ethical point of view. I wonder, though, if that method may have confounded their findings. I could imagine Instagram’s recommenders linking their simulated 13-year-olds’ accounts based on signals indicating their common association with the research organization (rather than purely on the basis of their shared interest in self-harm). Maybe somebody with stronger Danish than mine could shed light?
- Thorrez 2y agoThe article: >fake profiles of people as young as 13 years old
- beardyw 2y ago>Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds Researchers say parent company Meta is failing to remove explicit images on the social media site Actively? No, failing to remove is not actively.
- Thorrez 2y agoThe sentence continues: > and encouraging those engaging with such content to befriend one another
- whamlastxmas 2y agoProviding a platform that allows spreading is active
- beardyw 2y agoNo it's passive almost by definition.