Meta says 22% of girls already reporting body-image problems said Instagram made them better and 45.5% reported no impact. It says the research did not measure causal relationships and that some qualitative work involved only 40 teens. Meta disputes that it hid the research.
one in three of those teenage girls who told us they were experiencing body image issues reported that using Instagram made them feel worse—not one in three of all teenage girls.
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Meta says 22% of girls already reporting body-image problems said Instagram made them better and 45.5% reported no impact. It says the research did not measure causal relationships and that some qualitative work involved only 40 teens. Meta disputes that it hid the research. Directly contradicts a population-wide interpretation of “one in three teen girls”; supplies Meta’s noncausal and nondisclosure rebuttal, which remains the company’s position rather than an independent adjudication.