Top Lines: | Events | Event Videos | With Dems | Defeating COVID | Immigration, Border | Political Analysis | Countering Illiberalism's Rise | Contribute | Newsletter | Twitter |
Dear Friends,
We have 3 events on the books so far in October – our signature presentation, With Democrats Things Get Better, on Fri, Oct 15th; our new monthly look at the 2022 election and recent polling on Friday Oct 22nd; and this timely and important event, below, next Wednesday, Oct 6th. Hope you can make one or all these events, and we should be adding a few more, soon.
Wednesday, Oct 6th at 1pm ET - Is Instagram Causing A Mental/Physical Health Crisis Among Young Americans? Please join us next Wednesday for a timely conversation about whether Facebook and Instagram are causing a legitimate public health crisis in America. Joining us will be Zamaan Qureshi, the co-author of a new Time Magazine essay, "Instagram Is Doing Grave Harm to Our Generation. We Need Help to Stop It." You can register for the Zoom based event here.
Among the things we will be discussing is the recent Wall Street Journal expose, “Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show.” In what is a truly shocking set of revelations reported in this article, it appears internal, hidden Facebook studies have found that Instagram makes “body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.” One in three teen girls.
A Facebook executive, Antigone Davis, testified in front of the Senate yesterday about Instagram’s toxic impact on teens, and the Facebook whistleblower who has provided the material for the WSJ’s reporting is going public with her story on 60 Minutes this weekend. So our conversation on Wednesday is a timely one.
We hope you can join us on Wednesday, and please find more on Zamaan below. Here’s a link to a recent interview with him that we think you will find helpful.
Best – the NDN Team
Zamaan Qureshi is a policy advisor and social media coordinator for the Real Facebook Oversight Board and a researcher for The Citizens where he focuses on Cambridge Analytica. Zamaan is also a privacy advocate, has written for TIME and Byline Times, and has been featured in Newsweek, Forbes, and Cybercrime Magazine for his work exposing Facebook’s data collection on its users. Zamaan is currently pursuing a BA in International Studies and Political Science at American University.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Contributions or gifts to NDN are not deductible for federal tax purposes. Contributions or gifts to The New Policy Institute are tax-deductible. |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
800 Maine Avenue SW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20024
www.ndn.org @NDN_NPI
If you believe you received this message in error or wish to no longer receive email from us, please [link removed].
