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Irina Raicu, the director of the internet ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, told Insider that these real challenges can add credence to untrue claims on social media — which can "shift us away" from "real stories" of social media's harm on children. 

Spreading fake challenges can take attention away from the outcry over real, potentially dangerous challenges, Raicu said.

"If you are sharing fake stories about social media's impact, you are diluting the impact of the real stories that we need, as a society, to get our hands on," Raicu said. 

Irina Raicu, director of Internet Ethics, quoted by Insider.