A previously unpublished internal document reveals Facebook, now known as Meta, knew Instagram was pushing girls to dangerous content. In 2021, according to the document, an Instagram employee ran an ...

Chloe Weinstein (left) and influencer Victoria Garrick. Weinstein admits she is affected by the seemingly perfect images on Instagram while Garrick has concerns about their creation of unrealistic ...

NEW YORK -- Instagram says it's looking at new ways to discourage users from focusing on their physical appearance after The Wall Street Journal revealed that Facebook researchers have repeatedly ...

You've seen them all over social media, but how do these jet-setting, designer-hauling women really afford their lifestyles? Jennifer Savin investigates. My Sunday nights always seem to end up the ...

Facebook recognizes how harmful its photo-sharing app, Instagram, can be for teen girls' self-esteem, according to company documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal. Researchers tapped by the tech ...

An internal report describes a number of ways in which Instagram is harmful to as many as 20% of teenage girls using the app. It can increase anxieties about physical attractiveness, social image, and ...

The report revealed that internal Facebook researchers presented findings to company executives on several occasions during the past three years, highlighting alarming statistics such as: Thirty-two ...

Among teens who reported having suicidal thoughts, 13 percent of British users and 6 percent of American users said the desire to kill themselves came from Instagram. Getty Images Facebook has ...

Social media gets blamed for many of America’s ills, including the polarization of our politics and the erosion of truth itself. But proving that harms have occurred to all of society is hard. Far ...

Among young people, the idea that Instagram can hurt someone’s self-image is widely discussed. By Erin Woo Annie Zhu got an Instagram account during her freshman year of high school. At first, she ...

Thanks to ongoing brain development and increased sensitivity to dopamine (a neurotransmitter associated with motivation, pleasure and reward), teenagers are more likely to crave reward-based ...