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I imagine the stupid enterprise business software I make is way less bad than "our algo is making teenage girls kill themselves".

• serf 4mo ago
  yeah except that isn't how it's presented. social media boards don't go creating slides and mission statements that mentions those second order effects. most go something like: "Connecting people and souls through the technologies that empower every day life." rather than "Let's get Susie to jump off a bridge for yuks."
  • Hamuko 4mo ago
    >“Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,” the researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook’s internal message board, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves.” >“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues. >Among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram, one presentation showed. I don’t know, seems like they do go around creating slides that mention them.