Instagram admits that it promoted pro-eating disorder content to teens

Instagram has admitted that it failed to remove pro-eating disorder accounts from the app, and, in some cases, even promoted these pages to teenagers.

The admission came after Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal’s staff set up a fake account, which they registered to a 13-year-old girl. After following several diet and pro-eating disorder pages, the account’s algorithm almost immediately recommended more extreme dieting accounts.

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