“Kaley said she was 10 years old when she started having feelings of anxiety and depression, disorders for which she would be diagnosed years later by a therapist. She also started to obsess about her physical appearance and began using Instagram filters that would change the way she looked – making her nose smaller and her eyes bigger – almost as soon as she started using the platform as a child.
“Kaley has since been diagnosed with body dysmorphia, a condition which causes people to worry excessively about their physical appearance and prevents them from seeing themselves as others do. Her lawyers argued that features of Instagram, like infinite scroll, were designed to be addictive.”
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