Lindsay Arevalo

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A Northeastern professor opened a new Instagram account, set the age to 13. She didn't search for anything or follow anyone, just watched what Reels recommended. Within 3 minutes, Instagram was feeding her porn. By 20 minutes, that was the whole feed. Within half an hour, one 13-year-old test account was getting videos of explicit sex acts, back to back. The year Zuck wrote this email complaining about Snapchat, his own company had already run an internal study. It found teens on Instagram were seeing 3 times more banned nudity, over 4 times more bullying, and almost twice as much violent content as adults over 30. That report didn't become public until 2024. The Northeastern team ran the exact same experiment on TikTok and Snapchat. Neither platform pushed porn at teen accounts anywhere close to what Instagram did. On TikTok, even when the fake 13-year-old actively searched for adult creators, liked their videos, and followed them, the feed still wouldn't serve that content back. A normal adult on TikTok was seeing less of this stuff than a 13-year-old on Instagram. Court documents unsealed in November 2025 showed Meta's 'Accounts You May Follow' feature suggested 1.4 million possibly inappropriate adult users to teen accounts in a single day. Arturo Bejar, a former engineering director at Meta, testified that 1 in 8 Instagram teens gets an unwanted sexual advance every week. In October 2022, around the same time as this email, Twitter told Reuters that 13 percent of everything on its platform was adult content. By June 2024, X made it an official policy. OnlyFans pulled in $7.22 billion from its users in 2024 and paid $5.80 billion of that out to creators. Every mainstream feed is chasing the same pile of money. When Zuck asked in 2022 why nobody was looking harder at Snapchat for this, the honest answer was already sitting in his own company's files. On the exact thing he was complaining about, his own platform was doing it worse.

🚨 Brown University researchers tested what happens when ChatGPT acts as your therapist. Licensed psychologists reviewed every transcript. They found 15 ethical violations. Not 15 small issues. 15 violations of the standards that every human therapist in America is legally required to follow. Standards set by the American Psychological Association. Standards that can end a therapist's career if they break them. ChatGPT broke all of them. The researchers tested OpenAI's GPT series, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Llama. They had trained counselors use each chatbot as a cognitive behavioral therapist. Then three licensed clinical psychologists reviewed the transcripts and flagged every violation they found. Here is what they found. ChatGPT mishandled crisis situations. When users expressed suicidal thoughts, it failed to direct them to appropriate help. It refused to address sensitive issues or responded in ways that could make a crisis worse. It reinforced harmful beliefs. Instead of challenging distorted thinking, which is the entire point of therapy, it agreed with the distortion. It showed bias based on gender, culture, and religion. The responses changed depending on who was talking. A therapist would lose their license for this. And then there is the finding the researchers gave a name: deceptive empathy. ChatGPT says "I see you." It says "I understand." It says "that must be really hard." It uses every phrase a real therapist would use to build trust. But it understands nothing. It comprehends nothing. It is pattern matching on your pain. And it works. People trust it. People open up to it. People believe it cares. It does not. The lead researcher said it clearly. When a human therapist makes these mistakes, there are governing boards. There is professional liability. There are consequences. When ChatGPT makes these mistakes, there are none. No regulatory framework. No accountability. No consequences. Nothing. Right now, millions of people are using ChatGPT as their therapist. They are sharing their darkest thoughts with a product that fakes empathy, reinforces harmful beliefs, and has no idea when someone is in danger. And nobody is responsible when it goes wrong. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Meta. Nobody.