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pro-ED

pro-ED adjective: promoting or encouraging eating disorders.

Adjective

pro-ED (not comparable)

  1. Promoting or encouraging eating disorders.
    • 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 Independent
    • And 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 Wired
    Synonyms:
    pro-eating disorder

Synonyms of pro-ED

  • pro-eating disorder

Origin of pro-ED

From pro- + ED (“eating disorder”).

Questions about pro-ED

What does pro-ED mean?
Pro-ED means promoting or encouraging eating disorders.
What part of speech is pro-ED?
Pro-ED is an adjective.

Words near pro-ED in the dictionary

  1. pro-democratic
  2. pro-drop
  3. pro-drop language
  4. pro-drop languages
  5. pro-Dutch
  6. pro-ED
  7. pro-European
  8. pro-Europeanism
  9. pro-federalist
  10. pro-form
  11. pro-forms

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