The new Instagram mental health alert process has a failsafe, a human that reviews flagged posts to determine whether the post in question is really harmful or is a joke or a misunderstanding.

To make sense of the phenomenon called “Instagram therapy,” I interviewed more than 20 women in 2020 who use Instagram for mental health care.

Top Facebook officials were aware that Instagram, the popular photo-based social media platform that it owns, can have a negative impact on mental health, body image and more for teenagers ...

Filmmaker Karan Johar is known for his Instagram game, with his lively posts and updates. From someone who dearly shares his ...

Teenage girls say Instagram’s mental health impacts are no surprise. Among young people, the idea that Instagram can hurt someone’s self-image is widely discussed. Share full article ...

Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that Instagram has a negative effect on the mental health of teenagers. Many of them report feeling depressed and extremely self-conscious when using the app.

Whatever their training or background, however, it’s become clear that Instagram — much like TikTok — has become a platform for mental health influencers to personalize messaging to almost any ...

Given revelations about the toll Instagram takes on teen mental health, Gen-Z for Change and Accountable Tech are calling on Facebook to release all of its internal research on the topic.

To be sure, there is a growing scientific literature on the links between social media use and adolescent mental health. But as yet it is not possible to draw any firm conclusions from it, in part ...

Why mental health experts say Instagram is still not safe for teens New features to protect teen mental health may not be enough. To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the KHOU 11 app.

During the month of December, Cerebral, which connects patients with therapy and prescriptions for mental health disorders, ran more than 30 ads with this imagery, according to a Forbes analysis ...