{"id":16753,"date":"2024-11-30T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/instagram-actively-helping-spread-of-self-harm-among-teenagers-study-suggests\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:37:42","slug":"instagram-actively-helping-spread-of-self-harm-among-teenagers-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/instagram-actively-helping-spread-of-self-harm-among-teenagers-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say parent company Meta is failing to remove explicit images on the social media site<\/p>\n<p>Meta is actively helping self-harm content to flourish on Instagram by failing to remove explicit images and encouraging those engaging with such content to befriend one another, according to a damning new study that found its moderation \u201cextremely inadequate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Danish researchers created a private self-harm network on the social media platform, including fake profiles of people as young as 13 years old, in which they shared 85 pieces of self-harm-related content gradually increasing in severity, including blood, razor blades and encouragement of self-harm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/nov\/30\/instagram-actively-helping-to-spread-of-self-harm-among-teenagers-study-suggests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/52a5c2dbac89d2fef8b93ea7c2457293944ade4e\/0_0_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=aaac10a1b7f785dfbd44bde38c31cc7b\" title=\"Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study suggests\" \/>Researchers say parent company Meta is failing to remove explicit images on the social media site<br \/>\nMeta is actively helping self-harm content to flourish on Instagram by failing to remove explicit images and encouraging those engaging with such content to befriend one another, according to a damning new study that found its moderation \u201cextremely inadequate\u201d.<br \/>\nDanish researchers created a private self-harm network on the social media platform, including fake profiles of people as young as 13 years old, in which they shared 85 pieces of self-harm-related content gradually increasing in severity, including blood, razor blades and encouragement of self-harm. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say parent company Meta is failing to remove explicit images on the social media site Meta is actively helping self-harm content to flourish on Instagram by failing to remove explicit images and encouraging those engaging with such content to befriend one another, according to a damning new study that found its moderation \u201cextremely inadequate\u201d. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/instagram-actively-helping-spread-of-self-harm-among-teenagers-study-suggests\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study suggests<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}