Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This has been an insightful discussion with you today, Ms Haugen. I begin by crediting your great bravery for coming out and speaking so publicly across the world. All my colleagues have said you are doing the world a service, and particularly the next generation. Hopefully, we will be in a position to protect them through your testimony here and to other parliaments around the world. I will begin by quoting you. In one of your discussions you said that Instagram can lead from healthy recipes to anorexia. At another point you said that Facebook's internal research states that 13.5% of teenage girls said Instagram made their suicidal ideation worse, with 17% of teenage girls reporting that Instagram made their body dysmorphia worse. They are the types of things we have been hearing from our witnesses' statements throughout our pre-legislative scrutiny. There are a specific instances. Can you extrapolate on the experiences you had with regard to the figures and particularly with young girls and how they are so affected in terms of body image?