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Exhibit 61 Message 1'" l 5 A From: Pratiti Raychoudhury [/o=THEFACEBoox/OU=EXTERNAL E lF _ {,5 (FVDIBOHFZSSPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=06AODSEB49054228A134CF5F0184EEEE] Sent: To: 10/27/2021 9:16:42 PM _ Kang-Xing Jin _ Emily Dalton Smith 202', J AN 29 PM I" 57 o Subject: RE: Well Being research a, iAST R DAVlDSOPl C0. CHANCERY CT Just sent you guys the high level plans. There's lots under each of them. W .mocan From: Kang-Xing Jin _ Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:31 PM ro: Emily Dalton Smith _ Subject: Re: Well Being research Pratiti Raychoudhury _ Thanks. Pratiti, on progress re: well-being research, my statement was meant to be "as of beginning of this year/ through 2020" not more recently. know you've been working on this a lot (that l can only imagine has been l crazy to do) and had no intention to weigh in on that more recent progress. Apologies. Not urgent, but if there is a quick summary of the recent progress that is sharable with me, that'd be helpful. Emily, agree with your framing. l think #3 and #4 are a bit dependent, like we can do a one-off escalation to get some of the Problematic Use stuff moving (#3), but l think we'll want to do ongoing coordination and adjustment within that topic and across topics, and we don't get that without #4. think we might also want to I spin up more re: Eating Disorders. So if we just do the one-off l expect we'll be back in the same place in a few months / the work will inevitably drift, since we won't have the ongoing central ownership. KX From: Emily Dalton Smith - Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:22 PM To: Pratiti Raychoudhury Subject: Re: Well Being _ research Kang-Xing iin - Yes, for extreme clarity: 1. We've made a lot of progress on research and data sharing. We've not made a lot of progress on getting the research into product. We aren't planning to reset or change the strategy APPROVED by Cox/ Nick in August. i-"PWP Our P0 is getting the relevant product team to EXECUTE against the APPROVED strategy. Our P1 is getting net-new resourcing for the central well-being product team. We will escalate both #3 and #4 to Pratiti/Cox/Naomi/etc. next week. < From: Pratiti Raychoudhury Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 12:21 PM To: Kang-Xing Jin _ Cc: Emily Dalton Smith- Subject: Re: Well Being research CONFIDENTIAL PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT - MT-lG-AG-OO189014 One thing disagree with is that for data sharing/ ext research we haven't made progress. It's true but there was no | staffing or priorities set on that. FORT's commitment was only U52020. The team has made a lot of progress here and it's aligned to our 4 priority areas with focus on teens Sent from my iPhone 0n Oct 27, 2021, at 12:13 PM, Pratiti Raychoudhury _ wrote: Ialso don't fully understand what Adam wants or is referring to. I think the problem is that Adam is not up to speed. really don't want to change the plans on external research. It's been blessed why Nick and I Alex and we've been talking about it for months now to get the right data sets identified etc. Sent from my iPhone 0n Oct 27, 2021, at 11:57 AM, Kang-Xing Jin _ wrote: Your proposed next steps sound good. ls Adam's urgency on the 1) data sharing / research side of things or 2) also product work? His "this" might be referring to research or product or both. lfl had to pick would get the latter set up first, but aiso open / supportive of | doing both in parallel assuming we can get staffing and commitment. l think the key thing is we're being asked / pushed to do a bunch of stuff without the staffing right now, and so the sooner we can tee that up for unblocking and decision the better. 0n product, if we can resolve the 10 XFN thing (and then have process to get FoA to re-pri some work on things like problematic use), then we'll be more on track. On data sharing/ research, I'm less sure what is needed (or specific goals/ timelines) since haven't been tracking as closely. But agree having a solid PM just on that Would also probably be important -- in addition to the research functions. And given the MZ well-being external research review worked on for | this topic in 2019, l 100% agree we've made not a lot of progress here in the last 2 years, so do need a re-set of approach and strategy. KX From: Emily Dalton Smith Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 9:51 AM To: Kang-Xing Jin Subject: FW: Well <_>; Being research Pratiti Raychoudhury _ CONFIDENTIAL PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT - MT-lG-AG-00189015 Hi guys heads up that Adam wants to move fast on Well-being product (see below). I think this could be a helpful way to rebuild momentum on the product side. What do you think of moving our monthly with Cox on Well-being to next week, adding Adam, and aligning on how we'll get the App team to prioritize the work KX outlined in August? Also, l have my 1:1 with Adam today, will debrief after. From: Adam Mosseri _ Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 2:25 PM To: Emily Dalton Smith _ Subject: Re: Well Being research That's far too slow. I'm likely testifying in front of congress the first week in December, and today Snap, TIkTok, and YouTube all committed publicly to sharing data with congress. Happy to jump on a VC if that's easier. From: Emily Dalton Smith - Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 11:45 AM To: Adam Mosseri _ Subject: Re: Well Being research Got it l understand your concerns about the difficulty and risk here, and am aligned. Ithink we've made good progress on research and have identified the initial focus areas (problematic use, connections, bullying & harassment, and emotional impact). Our biggest gap is getting this research into product rcadmaps. We got 0 new Well-being funding for 2022, so we'll need to tee up the tradeoffs against other priorities. Re: process, I'll get the captain PM and XFN team set up, and we'll review H1 roadmap and tradeoffs with you, Chris, Tom, Naomi, etc. by the first week of December. Does that work? I'm assuming Miki will be the IG poc let me know if there's someone else to - work with. From: Adam Mosseri _ Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 11:19 AM To: Emily Dalton Smith - Subject: Re: Well Being research FYI I'm really Worried about this. It's going to be incredibly hard to get done. We don't have full board alignment and the privacy and legal hurdles are significant. We've been talking about this for a long time but have made little progress. Would love your take on how to make this happen. I'd like us to be able to talk publicly about our plans by early December, and get something started in H1. From: Emily Dalton Smith - Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 11:17 AM To: Pratiti Raychoudhury Subject: Re: Well Being research _ Adam Mosseri CONFIDENTIAL PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT - MT-lG-AG-00189016 Hi! Agree we need an experienced PM captain. KX and l will own getting this stood up and the right person in place. _ From: Pratiti Raychoudhury Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 11:16 AM To: Adam Mosseri _ - Cc: Emily Dalton Smith Subject: RE: Well Being research Adding EDS since its on her team. _ From: Adam Mosseri Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 3:05 PM _ _ _ To: Pratiti Raychoudhury __ _ Chris Cox Nick Clegg Alex Schulu - Subject: Re: Well Being research Honestly it seems like the kind of thing having someone who already understands how to get things done here would be better suited for. ls it important this person is on KX's team? _ From: Pratiti Raychoudhury Date: Monday, October 25, 2021 at 2:59 PM _ < To: Adam Mosseri Nick Clegg Alex Schultz >, _ _ Chris Cox Cc= _>.- < Subject: RE: Well Being research KX has hired a new PM (starting 11/15) who'll be the PM captain for this. _ From: Adam Mosseri Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:38 PM _ _ _ To: Pratiti Raychoudhury Nick Clegg Alex Schultz __ _ Chris Cox __ _ Subject: Re: Well Being research Thanks Pratiti. Apologies if this is a na'ive question, but should we find a PM captain to help push this forward on a weekly basis? l do worry we've been talking about it for a while now, and it's the kind of thing that can easily fall to the wayside if we're not careful. From: Pratiti Raychoudhury <pratitirc@fb.com> Date: Friday, October 22, 2021 at 6:07 PM __ _ To: Nick Clegg _ Alex Schultz Adam MOSSGVl Chris Cox CONFIDENTIAL PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT - MT-IG-AG-00189017 Cc= < Subject: RE: Well Being research + Adam Adding Adam to keep him updated on plans + progress. From: Pratiti Raychoudhury Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 8:07 PM _ To: Nick Clegg Alex Schultz Chris Cox -- Cc Subject: Well RE: _- _ Being research Thank you Nick! o Yes, the plan is to do all of them. We are putting together a project tracker and will share with all of you. For the review, its mainly to prepare for potential leaks. think it's a I good flag to see if any of them are publication worthy. We'll keep that lens in mind. u Glad you like the special collaborations idea. am excited about that | too. Right now we don't have any blockers. If something comes up and we need your help, we'll definitely reach out. And yes, We are working with Rachel Mersey. o | actually don't know if we should use Researcher API for well-being research. While it's a richer data set than CrowdTangle, don't think it's I the right one for most of the well-being topics o Thanks for the steer on giving Mark an update. Will do after we have nailed down some of the specifics. - From: Nick Ciegg Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:50 PM _ To: Pratiti Raychoudhury Alex Schultz Chris _ _ Cox 503 __ Subject: Re: Well Being research Thx Pratiti for this overview v useful. My views/questions: I think we should do all of these items if possible. o As you say below, if there are outstanding blockages re the data catalogue the sooner we know that and can unblock the better. o Is the intention behind the 'research review' both to prepare for potential leaks AND to assess whether we have further internal studies that could be made public? if there is more of the latter, it would be good to understand that soon and discuss options for publication. o The 'special collaborations' idea is particularly promising. We need to be seen to be opening the door to respected academics to assess the accuracy of the claims that are being made about the impact of our apps on the world. What is needed to make swift progress here? CONFIDENTIAL PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT - MT-IG-AG-00189018 o As understand you discussed I with-, if we can fold these individual initiatives into a cohesive multi-year strategy, our chances of changing the public conversation will be strengthened. We should be using the new academic partnerships team under researchers and o institutions in the field. A identify and cultivate the key suitabie goal might be to secure a dramatic improvement in our understanding of the issues, and the perception that We care about them. within 3 years. o Correct in assuming that the new Researcher API will also be helpful to researchers in this space, once it's up and running? o Once we have nailed down some more of the specifics here, it would be good to produce a note for Mark setting out these plans and checking he agrees with the level of ambition and speed especially in view of the skepticism of some FB Board members expressed today, which understand will be the subject of a I further conversation. From: Pratiti Raychoudhury Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 4:47 PM _ To: Nick Clegg_ Alex Schultz Chris Cox ___ CC=Well >.- Subject: RE: < Being research Here's the Plans + Progress doc on these 5 bullets. Please note that data catalogue has been called out as a dependency in some areas. But we had a good review with them and hope to make progress sooner than later. We'll update the timeline as soon as we have more firm dates. _ From: Nick Clegg Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 11:26 PM _ _ To: Pratiti Raychoudhury _ COX _ Alex Schultz Chris Ct=- _ Subject: Re: Well Being research Yes those sound like the right next steps many thx. N From: Pratiti Raychoudhury < Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 8:21 AM < To: Nick cnegg __ Alex Schultz Chris Cox Cc:_ Well _>._ < Subject: RE: Being research Yes, can. From what took away was (1) move with urgency and be more prepared/ I I - proactive (2) because well-being is such a vast topic, start with mental health and teens. A few thoughts that l have: CONFIDENTIAL PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT - MT-lG-AG-00189019 o For external research, we need to make a decision on data sharing quickly (given the concerns from IR). We have already identified that the longitudinal correlative study and the millennium cohort studies are the 2 best ones to start with. Both Oll and us are ready to go as soon as we make a decision. I'll get this group and -+ o _ogether. We are also planning to do a more RFP style approach, similar to USZOZO. We are cataloging all the data needed for this and suspect will run into similar concerns from IR and legal. (These data sets will be more complex than the ones we want to share with Oll). o Look for "special" collaborations similar to what we did with Raj Chetty and social - capital o Red-team all existing research we have internally on mental health and teens. In the event of leaks, we can respond much faster. 0 Create a one-pager (similar to the Polarization and Bullying and Harassment ones). This will provide a holistic view (internally) on teens and mental health since so far our response is based only on the leaked studies. If these sound about right, I'll frame this up for us. Also let me know anything l am missing/ we should do more here. _ From: Nick Clegg Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 11:24 PM - To: Alex Schultz __ Chris Cox Pratiti Raychoudhury cc= <_ Subject: Well Being research Hey just wondering how we can follow up on the conversation in SG this morning re the case for further wellbeing research? It seems to me we need to significantly accelerate our existing plans and ideally design a FORT style sharing of underlying data with relevant researchers asap. Mark seems open to us doing this now so we should move quickly before the winds change. Pratiti - would you be able to frame something up for us to look at? Thx! N CONFIDENTIAL PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT - MT-lG-AG-OO189020