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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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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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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Court filing · 263 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
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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Court filing · 26 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
[Opposition]: In 2021, a renewed request to address "concerns about the impact of [Meta's] products on young people's mental health," was met with a Meta executive's acknowledgment that there was a "very low-likelihood that Mark chooses to fund more here."
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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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Court filing · 278 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
[Complaint]: Even though "this is the kind of thing that pisses Apple off to the extent of threatening to remove us from the App Store," as of mid-2020, Meta had no timeline for "when we'll stop adults from messaging minors in IG Direct." That remained true e…
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Court filing · 233 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
[Complaint]: Instagram heavily emphasized content that promoted negative appearance comparison. Fashion and beauty, relationships, "[w]estern pop stars who emphasize their bodies," and images that "emphasize women's bodies generally (e.g., cleavage, swimwear)"…
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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 · 5 pp
Mark Zuckerberg: "I care deeply about this and we'll continue focusing on being industry-leading with young people, but I'm not going to say [child safety] is my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I'm more focused on like building the meta…
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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 · 3 pp
████: "Reflecting on ████ comment about the difference between a team that finds and fixes societally important user problems and what the Integrity teams do, I think it's important to recognize what our partner teams do and don't do. Relevance: Cr…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "BTW - through the protocol to identify over-age and under-age we probably have experience in identifying if a user is a teen." ████: "We do - however, we do not trigger an Age Verification in such a case today given the potential revenue im…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Michel Protti: "You around? Any chance I can call you for 5 mins re: Arkansas?" Michel Protti: "Will try quick message thread - my take on this escalation is that, if we get a stay, we should clearly hold on our compliance plan while we assess the landscape g…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
"Non-personalized ads is not a tenable user experience and undermines AFS, given adoption for AFS is predicated on the fact that we are not able to offer non-personalized ads but if we do this for Youth, there may also be a push for us to do this for adults. A…
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Presentation · 3 pp
"Over the last two years, MWB has been focused on understanding and reducing problematic use for Instagram Users." "Why does problematic use matter? Research and analysis has revealed three primary reasons for reducing problematic use: 1. Teen WB: Research h…
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Presentation · 59 pp
"Problematic Use Definition 1. A perceived lack of control over usage of a technology or social media platform and 2. This lack of control is perceived to lead to negative life impacts (e.g., in domains such as relationships, work/school, sleep, etc)" "Person…
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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 · 44 pp
"For Child Safety, all reports should generate an SRT job. We found that around 30% of FB profile reports did not result in job creation."
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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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