Meta & Children's Online Safety

Documents / Chat: if the results are bad and we dont publish and they leak is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad

Chat: if the results are bad and we dont publish and they leak is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad

Internal document27 messagesParticipants redacted or unnamed

Narratives:Concealment

Open source PDF (3 pages)

A readable view of the chat, built from the transcribed text. Each row is one timestamped message in the record. Times are Pacific, as recorded. Check the Source PDF for the original layout.

████ name redacted. Different bars may be the same person or different people.

quoted in an excerpt in the archive.

Thursday 19 September 2019

15:43████so if we get the nielsen results back, if they are good would we publish or is there no intention of publishing?
15:45████we CAN publish we just aren't planning on it
15:49████ok. and just curious, do we think the results will be that negative? ive got to think that even if slightly negative they wont be THAT bad...i feel like all the well being research ive seen if it says FB isnt good for people it's always jsut like a small11111 percentage over neutral
15:49████that is correct
15:49████idk maybbe im being naive but i feel like that this will bbe fine
15:50████I think we'll see some positive
15:50████some negative
15:50████yeah i agree
15:50████and most neutral
15:50████and anything positive or negative will be small
15:50████FB is just a minor piece of people's lives
15:50████it's an hour amongst 24
15:50████yeah for sure
15:50████and this is just a week without it
15:52████someone just said to me if the results are bad and we dont publish and they leak is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves
15:52████i went...oh
15:53████no because we will do something about it
15:53████i don't want to work at a company that's long-term bad for people, i don't think many of us do
15:53████we don't want to bad in people's lives, so if we are, we need to know s we can fix it
16:03████also we already have that info about us
16:03████and we admitted it publicly
16:10████this is stressful -- we've been putting this project through review for 1.5 years!!!!
16:14████itll work out!
16:14████i think it's probably going to be fine
16:14████will it!?! it feels like it's completely unraveling again
16:14████basically feels like comms review again
16:14████tomorrow I'm getting legal to look at it again