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Original publication (PDF, Danish, Google Drive link from the NGO): https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1MZrFRii_nJYdW8RulORB9JveLkCRbncX&export=d
by alwa 2y ago
Original 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