The app has made two important changes.
While technology has made it increasingly harder to go a day without consuming content that makes you feel not skinny enough, not pretty enough, and on and on and on, Instagram is addressing the role it's played in the increased pressure put on women through their app. The social media company announced yesterday that it would implement stronger regulations around advertisements through the app concerning things like weight loss and cosmetic surgery products.
In March, we spoke to @jameelajamil about how social media contributes to women being judged on"how little space they are taking up" pic.twitter.com/SiGB5e8Dk5The guidelines will take on two issues stemming from the advertisement platform: the first is the advertisement's effects on young people and the second is how the ads overpromise the benefits of these products.
#cf_4 .cf-btn:after { border-radius: 0px } .cf-content-wrap, .cf-form-wrap{ padding:5px; } div#cf_4 { margin-bottom: 20px; } .cf-content-text.cf-col { padding-left: 20px;padding-right:20px; } — Jameela Jamil 🌈 September 18, 2019 This change is certainly a win for the body-neutrality movement and sends a very strong message to companies trying to play into people's insecurities to sell crappy products. As a wise stranger once graffitied, “if your product was any good, you wouldn’t need sexism to sell it,” which is exactly what Instagram became a platform for.
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