Meta's internal documents produced during litigation.
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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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Court filing · 263 pp
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Specifically, with accounts clearly belonging to children, Meta has: • Proactively served and directed them to a stream of egregious, sexually explicit images through recommended users and posts – even where the child has expressed no interest in this content;…
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Messages & email · 49 pp
Gabriel ████: "(l) Yes on PYMK, but with the specifics of a/ MaCSA>0.3 to Minor: Filtered b/ Minor to MaCSA >0.3: Filtered except where 2 year age gap c/ Minor to MaCSA >0.6: Filtered with no age gap (2) There were some filters in place prior to taskforc…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
"Prior to the Task Force, we had some limitations the recommendations between minors and potentially suspicious adults, but they didn't cover everything and we're always bi-directional. As part of the task force, we rolled out bi-directional protections to, mo…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
Andy ████: "Flagging this new video Horwitz just sent of the AYSF recommendations for one of the Instagram accounts he's used to do this child safety research. Can we please look into this? I'd have assumed at this point the steps we've taken would have…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Andy Stone: "Hi folks - following up here with a smaller group just to make you aware of something related to Jeff's ongoing reporting of child safety issues on the platform. I don't want to come across as alarmist - and myself have pushed back vociferously on…
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Presentation · 56 pp
"We know that SSI and ED have a significantly disproportionate large teen audience. SSI and ED SWOP among teens is ████ higher than among adults on IG (query). When examining consumption patterns among high consumers (>= 8 pieces of violating content) of…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
Monika Bickert: "I wanted to get your thoughts on the options in this doc about how to restrict recommendations of minors and adults to one another. My sense right now is that Product is wedded to Option 1 (status quo: cut out "risky adults" from recommendatio…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Amit ████: "We've recently learned that there are gaps implementing some previously agreed / documented limitations to adult<>minor connection recommendations in PYMK on FB and AYSF on IG. As teams have been working to implement, they've bumped into conc…
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Research & report · 13 pp
"Following the first Wall Street Journal article, the Child Safety Task Force has been working to tighten our existing child safety protections. This included work to ensure that Risky Adults (i.e those with specific Malicious Child Safety Actor - MaCSA scores…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Melissa ████: "I'm not surprised we have bad hashtags. our search safety team is a few employees who look at a list of popular hashtags every week to decide which to filter out :( it's super low tech… We also do very little to make sure handles are appro…
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Messages & email · 1 pp
"Holy shit the WSJ article on Instagram and pedo recommendations is brutal"
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Presentation · 124 pp
"One method we're using is to remove minors in inbox search for unconnected adults… You can typically search for people you are not connected w/ in Inbox search (i.e. start a new message w/ someone you're not connected to in this way); this blocks that feature…
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Research & report · 19 pp
"The Internal Audit (IA) team has completed the IG Youth Well-being Assurance Audit - Phase 1. This report is rated as 'Significant Improvements Needed' with 3 High, and 14 Medium risk observations." "Key observation themes are summarized below: - Inconsiste…
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Messages & email · 6 pp
"Circling back re: investment needed to strengthen Meta's position on well-being (see original email from Aug below). This investment is important to ensure we have the product roadmaps necessary to stand behind our external narrative of well-being on our app…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Darius Kilstein: "I wonder what % of grooming happens from people with at least 1 NFX action? Like maybe there's a solution for non mutual friending that does not require a prior action against them" ████: "The issue here is that people lie, and we know…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
████: "Context: In August 2020, we found out that there are ~38x as many IIC victims on IGDM as on FB Messenger (Aug 2020). Despite this, CEI deletes on IG are ~21x lower and IIC auto-enforcing on IG is 90x lower compared to on FB." "Actors take advanta…
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Research & report · 18 pp
"Immediate Product Vulnerabilities - We lack a U13 classifier, insufficient means to detect and remove ul3s at scale - We also have deprioritized U13 enforcement because COPPA compliance is at risk when we sit on knowledge of u13, incentivizes not knowing - A…
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Messages & email · 19 pp
████: [Heavily Redacted Content]... "We're concerned as this means these accounts – which are clearly violating – will remain easy to find and may continue to be recommended – both to vulnerable people, and to journalists who are looking to write stories…
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Research & report · 24 pp
"[W]ork is not planned to prevent FB and IG adults from initiating messages to IG minors. Limited country tests and data analyses have shown that ████ can demonstrably reduce CEI sharing but product leadership has been unwilling to prioritize these mitig…
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Research & report · 53 pp
"We may be facilitating possible groomers finding young people through following, hashtags, explore, and search." • "Created two test users" • "One followed teen hashtags" • "One followed sexy teen accounts" [1. Discoverability]: • Problem: "IG recommend…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
████: "I met with ████ from the TBH team earlier this week to pick his brain on teens... Here are the highlights: 1. Their growth strategy was to go school by school. They would create an IG account with a bio saying 'TBH coming to your school' and…
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Research & report · 22 pp
"For Tweens, we need to develop a strategy to get them onto Messenger and Facebook." "We formalized our Youth Defense Task Force, tools and dashboards. This team focuses on building pipelines and systems to detect and respond to experiments and rollouts acros…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
"Our overall company goal is total teen time spent, which is MAP * MAP/DAP * TS/DAP." "Mark has decided that the top priority for the company in H1 2017 is teens." "Global PYMK: We believe that we can generate a bunch of new value by emphasizing teen:teen co…
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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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