Late Wednesday evening, Facebook quietly pubbed two slide decks detailing its inside analysis on Instagram’s results on its teen consumer’s psychological well being. The two decks (which you’ll be able to see for your self here and here) shaped the spine of a recent investigation by The Wall Street Journal that detailed a number of the firm’s personal analysis into the platform’s notably dangerous results on teen customers—and teenage ladies, specifically.

Since that report got here out earlier this month, we’ve seen Facebook do what Facebook does greatest: disaster PR. To date, this included the corporate publicly rebutting a number of the Journal’s framing earlier than “pausing” its work on its deliberate Instagram Kids app. The firm was additionally pressured to launch a few of this inside analysis to the general public and to lawmakers forward of Thursday morning, when Facebook’s head of security, Antigone Davis, is scheduled to face a grilling by the Senate Commerce Committee.

And Facebook obliged. But naturally, as a result of that is Facebook, the slides include a catch—on this case, it’s a boatload of annotations lumped onto the unique analysis.

“Our internal research is part of our effort to ensure that our platform is having the most positive impact possible,” one slide reads. “We invest in this research to proactively identify where we can improve and better support users who experience hard life moments—which is why the reporting often focuses on potential areas to improve from a user experience perspective.”

For those that don’t recall the Journal’s preliminary report, a lot of this inside analysis carried some fairly damning takeaways; some who use Instagram usually come away feeling anxious or depressed, for instance, or that the platform exacerbates physique picture points for “one in three” teen ladies. On a slide that reads “most teens [who use Instagram] report feeling a mental health issue,” the annotation qualifies that the slide’s definition of psychological well being, “should not be mistaken for a clinical, formal or academic definition.” Another slide describing the “effect,” of Instagram on teen’s well-being notes that “the word ‘effect’ here is inappropriately used.”

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“The study was not designed to identify the ‘effect’ of Instagram on well-being in a causal sense,” Facebook famous, “But is rather perception-based by asking those who took the survey to self-report.” Another slide describing how one in 5 teenagers level to Instagram as having a damaging affect on their vanity—with UK teenagers that includes probably the most critical vanity results—options the annotation that “this research was not intended to (and does not) evaluate causal claims between Instagram and health or well-being.” Attempts to downplay descriptions of the platform’s “casual” results are fairly rampant within the annotations throughout each slide decks.

Facebook’s previous makes an attempt at disaster PR have regularly blown up within the firm’s face. In response to Facebook’s claims that the Wall Street Journal had “mischaracterized its findings,” the newspaper published six inside slide decks from the social media big. In one of the new research slides: the corporate describes saturating the teenager market in “4 out of 5 countries,” and clearly gained’t relaxation till it will get youthful customers throughout the globe on its platform. PR points—notably about that platform doing injury to teen’s psychological well being—make the acquisition of that viewers a lot more durable. In different phrases, that is simply one other case of Facebook addressing a few of its worst issues solely when these issues encroach on its potential progress. And that’s all the corporate cares about on the finish of the day.