
How Instagram led to two teens' eating disorders
CNN
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 whistleblower Frances Haugen.
She weighed 85 pounds. She was hospitalized. Her heart stopped twice. Doctors thought she would not survive.
But she did. And now the resident of New South Wales, Australia, is dedicating her life to helping other girls. Her first warning to parents and children is about the dangers of Instagram, where, Thomas says, her journey to a near death began.

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