Instagram is not toxic for teens according to Facebook

Two weeks ago a report of Wall Street Journal created highlights which said that instagram made body image issues worse for 1 in 3 teenage girls according to Facebook's own data.

But two weeks after the report was publish Facebook has rattled back at the WSJ report, 

The salvo comes courtesy of Pratiti Raychoudhury, Vice President, Head of Research at Facebook. Raychoudhury’s post on Facebook’s Newsroom claims that The Wall Street Journal’s characterization of internal research is “not accurate” and blames it all on a poor interpretation of the data the WSJ has in its possession.

On September 14 The Wall Street Journal published a story to The Facebook Files, which is a series of stories based around an enormous cache of internal Facebook documents leaked to the newspaper. 

The September 14 piece focused on data that suggested Instagram had an extremely harmful effect on teenagers — particularly teenage girls. 

The report claimed that Facebook was well aware of the harm its products had on teenagers and that the company “has made minimal efforts to address these issues and plays them down in public.”

Facebook has been evasive about the contents of the study cited by the WSJ. But Facebook’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, is expected to appear before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee Thursday to answer for the claims made in the story and plans for a new “Instagram for kids”.

Facebook is always surrounded by news for its notorious acts whether it's the bluebox itself or actions made by the leader Mark Zuckerberg.