{"id":1037054,"date":"2021-11-20T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1037054"},"modified":"2021-11-20T15:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T20:44:22","slug":"after-controversial-whistleblowers-documents-state-attorneys-general-look-into-instagrams-effect-on-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-controversial-whistleblowers-documents-state-attorneys-general-look-into-instagrams-effect-on-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"After Controversial Whistleblower\u2019s Documents, State Attorneys General Look Into Instagram\u2019s Effect On Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-controversial-whistleblowers-documents-state-attorneys-general-look-into-instagrams-effect-on-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1037054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Based on the account of Meta \u201cwhistleblower\u201d and left-wing activist Frances Haugen, attorneys general from multiple red and blue states are investigating Instagram for its emotional effects on young people.<\/p>\n<p>Among the states involved are California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/18\/technology\/meta-instagram-investigation-teens.html\">The New York Times<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after a trove of documents from a former employee detailed research inside of the social media company that suggested teenagers suffered body image issues when using Instagram. The documents, called The Facebook Papers, were shared with journalists in October. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the documents and the issues at Instagram with the help of Frances Haugen, the whistle-blower\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Haugen and public interest groups have filed at least nine complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission claiming Meta mislead investors about its efforts to protect users from disinformation and hate.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Daily Wire investigative reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/facebook-whistleblower-leftist-activist-lawyer-ukraine-impeachment\">Luke Rosiak<\/a>, Haugen has a \u201crecord of donations to far-left Democrats and a history of raising issues about purported bias while at previous employers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is working with Democrat operatives to roll out her complaint and has the same lawyers as the anonymous Ukraine \u2018whistleblower\u2019 whose allegations led to Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment, but who reportedly turned out to be then-Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s top advisor on the country,\u201d Rosiak described. Haugen donated to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s (D-NY) congressional campaign in 2020, as well as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the \u201cCourage to Change\u201d Political Action Committee.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, attorneys general from both parties are working on the Instagram investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook, now Meta, has failed to protect young people on its platforms and instead chose to ignore or, in some cases, double down on known manipulations that pose a real threat to physical and mental health \u2014 exploiting children in the interest of profit,\u201d said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen social media platforms treat our kids as mere commodities to manipulate for longer screen time engagement &amp; data extraction, it becomes imperative for state attorneys general to engage our investigative authority under our consumer protection laws,\u201d added Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/facebook-changes-company-name-to-meta-will-focus-on-bringing-the-metaverse-to-life\">announced<\/a> that the company would change its name to \u201cMeta\u201d in order to emphasize its new \u201cmetaverse\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking a lot about our identity as we begin this next chapter. Facebook is one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the account of Meta \u201cwhistleblower\u201d and left-wing activist Frances Haugen, attorneys general from multiple red and blue states are investigating Instagram for its emotional effects on young people.Among the states involved are California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.The New York Times reports:The move comes after a trove of documents from a former employee detailed research inside of the social media company that suggested teenagers suffered body image issues when using Instagram. The documents, called The Facebook Papers, were shared with journalists in October. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the documents and the issues at Instagram with the help of Frances Haugen, the whistle-blower\u2026Ms. Haugen and public interest groups have filed at least nine complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission claiming Meta mislead investors about its efforts to protect users from disinformation and hate.However, according to Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, Haugen has a \u201crecord of donations to far-left Democrats and a history of raising issues about purported bias while at previous employers.\u201d\u201cShe is working with Democrat operatives to roll out her complaint and has the same lawyers as the anonymous Ukraine \u2018whistleblower\u2019 whose allegations led to Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment, but who reportedly turned out to be then-Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s top advisor on the country,\u201d Rosiak described. Haugen donated to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s (D-NY) congressional campaign in 2020, as well as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the \u201cCourage to Change\u201d Political Action Committee.In any case, attorneys general from both parties are working on the Instagram investigation.\u201cFacebook, now Meta, has failed to protect young people on its platforms and instead chose to ignore or, in some cases, double down on known manipulations that pose a real threat to physical and mental health \u2014 exploiting children in the interest of profit,\u201d said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat.\u201cWhen social media platforms treat our kids as mere commodities to manipulate for longer screen time engagement &#038; data extraction, it becomes imperative for state attorneys general to engage our investigative authority under our consumer protection laws,\u201d added Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, a Republican.Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would change its name to \u201cMeta\u201d in order to emphasize its new \u201cmetaverse\u201d initiative.\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking a lot about our identity as we begin this next chapter. Facebook is one of the most used products in the history of the world,\u201d Zuckerberg said. \u201cIt is an iconic social media brand, but increasingly it just doesn\u2019t encompass everything that we do.\u201d\u201cToday we\u2019re seen as a social media company,\u201d he added, \u201cbut in our DNA, we are a company that builds technology to connect people. And the metaverse is the next frontier just like social networking was when we got started.\u201d\u201cWe live for what we\u2019re building. And while we make mistakes, we keep learning and building and moving forward.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}