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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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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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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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 · 2 pp
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Messages & email · 8 pp
████: "They should audit every surface team's goal across the company, think about whether we would be comfortable telling the world that we are optimizing for x for their kid, and when the answer is no, come up with a defensible alternative." [Redacted…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
████: "In 2024, the organic IG Reels watch time budget will increase from -6.4% to -7.8% to account for the impact of Reels ad load increases on Reels consumption. The impact of Reels ads on engagement is typically immediate on Reels organic watch time, …
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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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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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