Meta's internal documents produced during litigation.
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Court filing · 9 pp
0.45% of users predicted to be Youth and predicted to reside in the U.S. had Take a Break enabled on Instagram between January 8, 2023 and September 24, 2024.
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Court filing · 14 pp
"Threshold value for autodeletion: 0.94."
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Planning & review · 16 pp
"On 11 separate occasions between February and December 2025, NCMEC emailed Meta regarding reports in which a child victim expressed suicidal ideation in a chat log, and Meta failed to escalate the report. NCMEC also raised this issue in at least three bi-week…
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Court filing · 235 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
[Opposition]: In 2023… Meta's researchers launched a longitudinal study to follow 4,000 U.S. teenagers over the academic year. The goal of this survey was to measure teens' attentiveness ("Possible unintended, unaware, and/or habitual use") and capability ("Pe…
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Testimony · 7 pp
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Testimony · 6 pp
"I quickly became aware that it was not uncommon for children in VR to experience bullying, sexual assault, to be solicited for nude photographs and sexual acts by pedophiles." "I was given a legal counterpart to scrutinize everything that I did, to tell me …
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Research & report · 9 pp
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Testimony · 43 pp
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Testimony · 29 pp
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Testimony · 211 pp
"17X, by any measure across the industry, is a very, very high strike threshold. That means you could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended."
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Testimony · 43 pp
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Research & report · 3 pp
"People Misrep team, owning the Underage E2E reporting and enforcement flow, focuses on impersonation problems, where age plays a relatively minor factor, resulting in an overall lower priority and understaffed on the Underage domain." "The Underage reporting…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Adam Mosseri: "FYI I don't think we can stop recommending teens to adults through AYSF on Instagram. If I'm reading the data correctly that'll stop roughly one third of teen follows that come from AYSF, which suggests that we'd be breaking something meaningful…
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Presentation · 11 pp
"Goal Drive consideration (& ultimately preference) for IG among teens in service of long term teen MAU growth" "Target Audience Teens(13-17), US)"
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Research & report
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Court filing
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
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Research & report · 12 pp
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Research & report · 5 pp
"Overall Takeaways/Recommendations: We are currently planning to sunset Take A Break as part of time management consolidation. This aligns with the fact that teens mostly have short sessions. Take A Break is likely not the appropriate market fit time managemen…
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Messages & email · 67 pp
"Financial sextortion cases predominantly impact boys age 14-17" "1 in 8 Of those who reported impact described thoughts of suicide or self harm." "IG is the leading platform reported for initial meeting [45%]" "IG was the leading platform for both threats …
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Presentation · 30 pp
"Teens' average scores across scales assessing sense of control (attentiveness and capability) indicate they report lower control, on average, over various aspects of their use of IG and TikTok compared to other apps." "Teen average scores on subscales assess…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
"This is so crazy to me…We found groups of new teen users who see Reels just Filled with sexualized media after sexualized…like their whole tab" "The way we found this was so crazy. We looked at Reels VM scores for some users of interest and found that there …
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Presentation · 38 pp
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Messages & email · 5 pp
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Messages & email · 2 pp
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Sources: published internal records, unsealed discovery exhibits and court filings in MDL 3047 and related litigation. An allegation in a filing is not an independently verified fact.
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