Meanings
- not comparablePromoting or encouraging eating disorders.
More extreme Pro-ED content promotes and glamorizes calorie restriction, extreme exercise, or purging with the help of laxative tea. […] People are more susceptible than ever to the toxic effects of pro-ED content.
2022 April 18, Heather Galloway, “Pro-eating disorder social media content is a pressing health concern”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 27 Apr 20232 more examples
Researchers from the university's School of Interactive Computing combed through 2.5 million pro-ED posts from 2011 to 2014, to study how the community reacted to Instagram's moderation. / The 17 pro-ED terms which were in[i]tially moderated by Instagram were adapted into hundreds of new words.
2016 March 10, Doug Bolton, “Instagram's banning of pro-anorexia content may have made the problem worse, scientists find”, in The IndependentAnd as with other kinds of harmful content on the internet, platforms hosting pro-ED communities have long struggled with how to moderate them. In 2001, Yahoo removed more than 100 pro-ED sites from its servers, saying they violated its terms of service.
2018 June 13, Louise Matsakis, “How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters on Social Media”, in WiredSynonyms: pro-eating disorder
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePromoting or encouraging eating disorders.
Origin
From pro- + ED (“eating disorder”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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