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Exhibit 73 Message From: Nick Clegg [/O=THEFACEBOOK/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=████] Sent: 3/30/2020 9:54:59 PM To: [REDACTED; tcolbourne@fb.com] Subject: FW: Cosmetic Surgery Filters Attachments: image001.jpg; image002.jpg; image003.jpg; image004.jpg Good From: Sheryl Sandberg <████> Date: Monday, March 30, 2020 at 2:43 PM To: Monika Bickert <████> Cc: Nick Clegg <████>, Joel Kaplan <████> Subject: RE: Cosmetic Surgery Filters I just reviewed this. I really hope we can keep the ban since we already have it. This follows our standards of being ahead on eating disorders, self harm. Let's not break something that is not broken. From: Monika Bickert <████> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:02 PM To: Sheryl Sandberg <████> Cc: Nick Clegg <████>; Joel Kaplan <████> Subject: Cosmetic Surgery Filters Hi Sheryl, I wanted to flag next Thursday's meeting (4/2) with Mark on "Cosmetic Surgery AR Effects". The issue is whether to continue our October 2019 ban on certain facial filters that mimic plastic surgery (reshaping the chin or nose, etc.). Product wants to lift the ban, but there are potential safety and IG brand risks – Nick is pretty worried about them. We thought you might want to join the meeting. If so, let me know and I'll get you the pre-read and mtg details. * Potential safety risk: We spoke to 18 mental health experts around the world. Each one raised concern that cosmetic surgery filters could cause lasting harm, especially to young people. There's no longitudinal research on this yet, however. * Potential Brand risk: The press sharply criticized us last summer after we started allowing developers to build their own effects and some of their effects were cosmetic surgery effects. We instituted the temporary ban in October because of the bad press and agreed to revisit in a few months (now). * Product perspective: Understandably, product and growth teams want to allow these effects; they're popular – especially in APAC – and developers wants freedom to be creative. Some product folks (and Adam Mosseri) think it could work to allow the filters but remove them from recommendations. It's not a perfect answer, though, because people find filters through following influencers more than through recommendations. CONFIDENTIAL - PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT MT-IG-AG-00698609 * Industry positions: Everyone but us allows these filters. Thanks, Mon Some details on safety and brand risks: Expert feedback: "[cosmetic surgery effects are] highly likely to fuel mental health problems in vulnerable individuals, particularly young people...Filters such as this only serve to reiterate the message that young people are not good enough as they are and that cosmetic procedures can be used to solve the problem." * Kitty Wallace, Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation "While it might seem like an excuse to spoil a bit of online fun, a 2018 study showed that "exposure to idealized Instagram images (attractive peers, celebrities) has a detrimental impact on body image". So pair that with the opportunity to completely switch-up your face, and the effects are bound to intensify." * NIH study, "The Effect of Instagram "Likes" on Women's Social Comparison and Body Dissatisfaction" by Tiggemann, Hayden, Brown and Veldhuis (as summarized in a Vice article) "What's interesting about visuals is that we always say that we can tell what's real and not real but the emotional/social imprint is much more nuanced, the brain really can't tell the difference." * Dr. Janis Whitlock, Cornell University "This is a self-fulfilling feedback loop of getting more praise or positive attention with the use of filters which implies that their real self – their unaltered self – is not good enough." * Lionel Brossi, University of Chile What the the press has said: [Daily Mirror logo] News > UK News > Cosmetic surgery Instagram 'fuelling mental health crisis' with "Fix Me" plastic surgery filter -Daily Mirror, October 10, 2019 Natasha Devon, the UK government's former tsar for children's mental health, has warned the filters could be damaging. She said: "It's been shown in numerous studies that looking at pictures of highly photoshopped models conveying impossible beauty standards can induce feelings similar to trauma in vulnerable individuals." Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery CONFIDENTIAL - PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT MT-IG-AG-00698610 -The Guardian, January 23, 2019 A recent report in the US medical journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery suggested that filtered images' "blurring the line of reality and fantasy" could be triggering body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a mental health condition where people become fixated on imagined defects in their appearance. CANADA The ugly side of Snapchat and Instagram filters [photo] BY AALIA ADAM · GLOBAL NEWS Posted July 25, 2019 6:00 am Updated July 26, 2019 6:47 pm -Global News CA, July 25, 2019 But these digital tweaks that obscure your flaws are setting an unrealistic standard of beauty and that can take a toll on one's self-esteem. In some cases, augmented reality filters are also causing dependence. Farr believes she suffers from a mild version of selfie dysmorphia, a body-image disorder defined as a need to heavily edit one's own digital image and an intense dissatisfaction with one's own appearance after using digital filters. Instagram bans plastic surgery filters in bid to improve mental health of users -The Telegraph, October 23, 2019 Senior Instagram executives told MPs in May that the firm would pay closer attention to appearance-changing photo filters over concerns about the impact they may have on people's body image. "I think that body image is a really important topic, broadly speaking, not just on Instagram, and this is something that we are taking really seriously, especially in some of the research we are doing," Vishal Shah, head of product at Instagram, told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. CONFIDENTIAL - PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT MT-IG-AG-00698611