Is social media bad for your mental health?

Facebook faces damaging claims that it was aware of harm Instagram caused to children

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Internal documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal have revealed that Facebook Inc. has known about the harm its platform Instagram appears to have caused some users.

Research shared with the tech giant’s employees on an internal message board included findings that “32% of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse”, according to the reports.

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