The features within Instagram that cause teenage girls to develop negative feelings about their body image may be baked into the very core of the platform, researchers and former employees have ...

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The research further found that Instagram had the highest impact on body and appearance comparisons relative to apps like TikTok, Snapchat, and VSCO. Advertisement Popular in Technology ...

Instagram can wreck positive body image in just 30 minutes By . WHIMN. Published Sep. 4, 2017, 4:17 p.m. ET. iStockphoto We all know that a long Instagram session can leave you feeling a bit ...

Instagram has also taken a progressive stance on discouraging negative body image by urging users to not promote or glorify self-harm (including anorexia, bulimia, or other eating disorders).

"Body image was the only area where teen girls who reported struggling with the issue said Instagram made it worse as compared to the other 11 areas," wrote Raychoudhury.

I spent a few nights last week poring over the trove of files that Facebook’s whistleblower, Frances Haugen, released to The Wall Street Journal about the impact of Instagram on teen girls. My ...