""The 2021 email was unsealed Thursday after being collected in discovery by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez as part of a case alleging Meta deceptively positioned its products as safe for teens, when it was aware of harmful design choices that the state claims addicted kids and allowed for child predators to thrive. In the complaint, the AG's office alleged that disclosing harms Meta identified on its platforms \"would have corrected the misleading and deceptive nature of its public statements proclaiming its platforms 'safe.'\" Meta spokesperson Andy Stone to""
""Recent events have made me consider whether we should change our approach to research and analytics around social issues," Zuckerberg wrote in a September 15, 2021 email to top executives including then-COO Sheryl Sandberg and head of global affairs Nick Clegg."
""Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse.""
Mark Zuckerberg considered changing Meta's approach to research and analytics on social issues following leaked internal findings linking Instagram to harms for teen girls. Documents obtained from a whistleblower later identified as Francis Haugen indicated that 32 percent of teen girls said Instagram made them feel worse about their bodies. Zuckerberg emailed top executives on September 15, 2021 about research and analytics. The 2021 email was unsealed after collection in discovery by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez during a lawsuit claiming Meta deceptively marketed its products as safe for teens despite harmful design choices.
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