{"id":2853,"date":"2021-09-15T20:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/mp-calls-for-facebook-to-be-punished-if-it-holds-back-evidence-of-harm-to-users\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T20:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:01:35","slug":"mp-calls-for-facebook-to-be-punished-if-it-holds-back-evidence-of-harm-to-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/mp-calls-for-facebook-to-be-punished-if-it-holds-back-evidence-of-harm-to-users\/","title":{"rendered":"MP calls for Facebook to be punished if it holds back evidence of harm to users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant is under pressure over revelations it knew Instagram was harming girls\u2019 mental health<\/p>\n<p>Facebook should be punished with substantial fines, potentially running into billions of pounds, if it withholds evidence that its social media platforms harm users, according to the MP leading scrutiny of a new online safety bill.<\/p>\n<p>The social network is under political pressure on both sides of the Atlantic following revelations in the Wall Street Journal that Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/14\/facebook-aware-instagram-harmful-effect-teenage-girls-leak-reveals\">knew its Instagram photo-sharing app was harming the mental health of teenage girls<\/a>. Leaked internal documents showed that among teenagers who have had suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/15\/mp-calls-for-facebook-to-be-punished-if-it-holds-back-evidence-of-harm-to-users\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fcc5048bf280cd128d503ff11d7e0277e944766a\/0_73_2007_1204\/master\/2007.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b33373e41d1577c3523d8daaba0e8518\" title=\"MP calls for Facebook to be punished if it holds back evidence of harm to users\" \/>Social media giant is under pressure over revelations it knew Instagram was harming girls\u2019 mental health<br \/>\nFacebook should be punished with substantial fines, potentially running into billions of pounds, if it withholds evidence that its social media platforms harm users, according to the MP leading scrutiny of a new online safety bill.<br \/>\nThe social network is under political pressure on both sides of the Atlantic following revelations in the Wall Street Journal that Facebook knew its Instagram photo-sharing app was harming the mental health of teenage girls. Leaked internal documents showed that among teenagers who have had suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant is under pressure over revelations it knew Instagram was harming girls\u2019 mental health Facebook should be punished with substantial fines, potentially running into billions of pounds, if it withholds evidence that its social media platforms harm users, according to the MP leading scrutiny of a new online safety bill. The social network &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/mp-calls-for-facebook-to-be-punished-if-it-holds-back-evidence-of-harm-to-users\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MP calls for Facebook to be punished if it holds back evidence of harm to users<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2854,"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\/2853"}],"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=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}