On Instagram, a Jewelry Ad Draws Solicitations for Sex With a 5-Year-Old Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience.

Facebook has conducted internal studies that found Instagram is harmful to teen girls and exacerbates body image issues, anxiety and depression — even though the company’s executives have ...

The struggles of Ashlee Thomas and Anastasia Vlasova illustrate Instagram’s potential “toxic” effect on teen girls, as highlighted in the congressional testimony Tuesday of Facebook ...

For the past three years, Facebook has been conducting studies into how its app Instagram affects its millions of young users. Repeatedly, the company’s researchers found that Instagram is ...

Facebook’s own researchers have found that Instagram barrages teen girls who have anorexia and other eating disorders with photos and videos of other afflicted girls -- a practice that experts ...

A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 11, 2021, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: Does Instagram Really Harm Girls?.

Three years later she proved her younger self wrong, darting to a first-place finish at the Virginia Class 6 girls’ cross-country meet to cap her senior season and vault the Spartans to a team ...