When Alexis Spence was 11, she secretly downloaded Instagram, following advice from other users to evade its age algorithm and disguise the app’s icon as a calculator. Her watchful parents took her devices at night, set parental controls and monitored her texts, but Alexis still developed an addiction, spending sleepless nights scrolling through a feed the family says glorified anorexia and self-harm.

She initially became moody and distant, but that eventually developed into anxiety, depression and an eating disorder. At 15, she was hospitalized with thoughts of suicide.

Now 19 and a sophomore in college, she is still working to recover from the severe mental health issues. But when she read the Facebook Papers, a trove of company documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugenlast year, she said she saw herself in the internal research Facebook conducted on its apps’ effects on teens.