What to know about ‘meanspo’, the social media trend promoting eating disorders – 9Honey

TRIGGER WARNING: This article discusses eating disorders.
The role of social media in encouraging and exacerbating eating disorders has long been debated.
Various sites have been called out for giving a platform to damaging behaviours, promoting unrealistic body image standards and perpetuating “pro-anorexic” content.
TikTok and Instagram have created in-app measures to combat the rise of pro eating-disorder content, by banning hashtags like “pro-ana” (pro-anorexia) and “thinspiration” content that…

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