Mie Andersen says she warned Instagram in 2021 about a number of harmful accounts. But, she says, the meeting changed nothing, and several of the profiles are still active. Instagram rejects the criticism.
In December 2021, Mie Andersen received a meeting invitation from one of Instagram’s executives.
She had spoken publicly about how posts on the social media platform had led her to harm her own body — how other people’s graphic descriptions and images of cuts had influenced her to self-harm to such an extent that it nearly cost her her life.
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