Excerpts from Plaintiff's Complaint for Abatement and Civil Penalties, New Mexico v. Meta

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• "We've seen over and over that many recs are generated from collaborative filter sources so if a person accidentally engaged (or baited to engage) with a non-recommendable content/entity they'll be sucked into a rabbit hole."
• "We know notifications has an harmful effect on teen usage."
• The age-verification group was awaiting approval to "increase our supply of human reviewers to burn down the backlog."
• Meta rejected features like take a break screen time management and restricted mode
• Meta was "knowingly exposing users to risks of integrity harms" because of "potential" media responses.
• Meta was "creating a world of addicted monsters"
• "ED content is too narrowly defined by our policies so we under-enforce on what the broader public might consider to be ED content"
• Kevin Systrom to Mark Zuckerberg: "[l]ast weekend a boy shot himself on IG live"
• Meta is "underinvested in minor sexualization on IG, notable on sexualized comments on content posted by minors."
• "[E]very Human Exploitation stage (recruitment, coordination, exploitation) is represented on our platform"
• A New Mexico AG investigation found that Meta proactively served sexually explicit content to children and enabled CSAM trafficking networks
• Meta received profits attributable to human trafficking
• "The Well-being Bullying team is ~15 people [at Instagram]. The Facebook Bullying and Harassment team is about that again."