Banned Instagram Terms Promote Users' Illnesses

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Despite Instagram aggressively moderating key terms that promote eating disorders and other disparaging lifestyles, researchers at the Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing discover that these communities continue to flourish and find loopholes around Instagram's censorship.

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College of Computing, School of Interactive Computing

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censorship, eating disorder, health, Instagram, social media
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  • Created By: Devin Young
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Mar 10, 2016 - 6:41am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:28pm