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Messages & email · 4 pp
████: "We finally have the results from the pilot stage of the Nielsen deactivation study… we are: 1. Exploring whether to make the results of the study public." Nick Clegg: "whilst I understand this study seems to suggest that the media narrative aroun…
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Presentation · 16 pp
████: "Here are the slides Antigone has put together. There is some good material here on the scale of the internal problem illustrating why we're just not set up adequately to answer the challenge. I think she could both unpack some of those problems (s…
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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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Messages & email · 6 pp
Calvin ████: "Melissa was after me" Tomas Kabbabe: "superstar. but decided to go the manager route too" Calvin ████: "Yeah I hear her during the quarterly" Tomas Kabbabe: "she killed daisy dude" Calvin ████: "Daisy?" Tomas Kabbabe: "Oh t…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Antigone Davis: "Hey did you ask for more child safety specific HC? If you have 5 minutes for a call, I can provide some context for the question." Christopher ████: "would you benefit from specific examples of where we fall short? eg: - we do nothing…
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Presentation · 4 pp
"There is a graduation in use of apps as kids age. YouTube is a constant but kids tend to move from 'play' and single-purpose apps at age 6-9 through to more social apps such as TikTok, Facebook and Instagram from ages 10-12." "Messenger Kids is more associat…
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Research & report · 10 pp
"Starting in 2018, there was growing concern in the public (amongst media, academics, policy elites, and everyday users) that technology companies were deliberately manipulating users by designing addictive products that can harm well-being and subvert control…
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Presentation · 40 pp
"We seek to accelerate our ability to address content issues on platform for topics such as eating disorders, for which we have limited mitigations" "Hashtags that promote eating disorders are relatively easy to find, resulting in ED content." "Facebook is p…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Antigone Davis: "[O]n the request for us to improve our age models, what was the decision leadership took on this when they decided to move age verification efforts to device side?" ████: "[T]here was no explicit decision to improving our existing age m…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
Miki Rothschild: "I just watched the social dilema yesterday and it made me sad b/c while I don't agree with a lot of what they say there's some truth to it. Have you watched it?" ████: "Yes the day it came out… I agree with the core points… like there …
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "My takeaway was that if we want product leadership to prioritize wellbeing product changes we have to come up with a killer statistic. (That seems both simple and hard.)" ████: "and for some problems, probably impossible" ████" @Just…
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Presentation · 41 pp
"Goal: We will goal on delivering disproportionate distribution outcomes relative to author follow count. In other words, creating moments where people get 10-100x plays relative to their following when they create great Reels. This is in service of our Produc…
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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 · 8 pp
"In March it was decided that we would not build a classifier to detect minors under 13 years old… We need leadership support to push product to act on knowledge we already have, i.e. clear our backlogs, disable verified u13s"
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Messages & email · 2 pp
"No one wakes up thinking they want to maximize the number of times they open Instagram that day. But that's exactly what our product teams are trying to do."
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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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Messages & email · 2 pp
████: "Reward is the satisfaction one feels when they achieve the desired outcome from actions they have taken to fulfill a need. This means, when an app does the job it was hired to do consistently, quickly and effectively, usage of the app itself is pe…
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Research & report · 5 pp
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Messages & email · 4 pp
Darius Kilstein: btw there is a new netflix doco basically saying we're creating a world of addicts ████: Interesting. Yeah I was listening to an audio book yesterday about how people said they didn't like Facebook Newsfeed, just like how Netflix users …
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Messages & email · 9 pp
Shayli Roiz: "oh my gosh yall IG is a drug" ████: "Lol, I mean, all social media. We're basically pushers" Shayli Roiz: "Seriously it is! We are causing Reward Deficit Disorder bc people are binging on IG so much they can't feel reward anymore…like the…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Melissa ████: "hey yall, was chatting with Tomas about how many people are complaining about sexualized content getting recommended to them in Reels" Melissa ████: "Some really yucky content. We're sexualizing underage girls, promoting some very i…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Darius Kilstein: "Ya I see this as two workstreams that are separate but related. 1. Keep regulators away, keep teens engaged 2. Make teens safe I think where Growth is coming from is that for us, we only really have bandwidth for 1/."
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "[W]hat's your sense of the headwinds for bold social comparison interventions like Daisy, which may be associated with (not yet crystal clear) impacts on traditional metrics?" Charles Sismondo: "The feedback we got in our IG leads review recogniz…
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Presentation · 3 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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