Facebook's vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, was pushing back after last week's damning Wall Street Journal investigation based on internal documents company documents found that the company was aware of problems in its platforms. "There is no perfection on social media as much as in any other walk of life," Clegg told CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter. Teens who already have low esteem will go on social media and begin comparing themselves to others, Clegg said, and Facebook can't control the "basic human tendency" of comparison. "I don't think it's intuitively surprising that if you're not feeling great about yourself already, then going onto social media can actually make you feel a bit worse," Clegg said. The news outlet said it has asked Facebook to release the internal research it reported on, which Clegg did not confirm Facebook would do.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 03, 2021 19:30 UTC