‘Pro-Eating Disorder Bubble’ on Instagram Sparks Outcry (1)

Lawmakers are demanding answers from Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg after new evidence emerged that the company is pushing dangerous eating disorder content on children and teens.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has repeatedly come under fire for what lawmakers on both sides of the aisle view as a failure to protect young people online from targeted advertisement. Former Facebook data engineer Frances Haugen’s testimony before a Senate panel last year, in which she claimed the company’s algorithms are exploiting kids and teens, brought the issue into the limelight.

In an April 29 letter to Zuckerberg, ...