Facebook's effort to stop suicides reveals a worrisome gap between Silicon Valley tech companies and healthcare experts

between health innovation and tech disruption. Clinicians see red flags. Tech leaders see revolution.At Facebook, the safety and security team spoke with experts at several suicide-prevention nonprofits, including, the founder of Save.org. Reidenberg told Business Insider that he helped Facebook create a solution by sharing his experiences, bringing in people who'd struggled personally with suicide, and having them share what helped them.

Torous, a psychiatrist who's familiar with the thorny issues in predicting suicide, is skeptical of how that will play out with regard to the suicide monitoring tool. He points to aof 17 studies in which researchers analyzed 64 different suicide-prediction models and concluded that the models had almost no ability to successfully predict a suicide attempt.

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People can be malleable. These companies hire numerous professionals who are at the top of their respective fields that it makes no sense to believe they didn't see this coming. Tech was created mostly for scholars, military, & scientists. It never accounted for malicious people.

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