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We make body-image issues worse

testimony gap

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Facebook / Instagram public policy · 2021-09

Blog and press responses

The company said the Journal focused on a limited set of findings, that the research was part of a commitment to understanding hard problems, and that Instagram is helpful for most teens.

The public register is net-helpful and methodologically humble. The private slide is a rate. Testimony-gap is when Congress and parents get the first and staff get the second.

The tell · If the research slide would be a headline, and the press line is “it’s complicated,” you are looking at two audiences.

How this became public: Frances Haugen production; WSJ Facebook Files; FBarchive at Harvard.

Keyboard: J / K or ← / → to move. S for sources. Esc leaves the pair.

Where this came fromSources (S)

Pipe: Whistleblower. Frances Haugen production; WSJ Facebook Files; FBarchive at Harvard.

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Facebook / Instagram public policy, company statements after the Facebook Files

2021-09 · Blog and press responses

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Instagram research presentation, internal research slide

2019-2020 · Facebook Workplace / research deck

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